Cool drill-down directory with WordPress

That’s pretty cool, nice looking blog.

nice. and particularly handy for me, since I am an Alberta Streetian. i look forward to it fleshing out. are you not listing hours because you don’t want to keep up with seasonal changes etc? ‘cos I think it’d be useful to provide a general sense of “closed around 6” or “open lateish.” A man needs to know that La Bonita is closed on Mondays, and that Sirenita is generally open an hour later, for stragglers.

Thanks for the kudos – and yep, I totally intend to put hours on there, too. I just started adding hours to the first store. Here’s how I’m doing it:

Each place is a page with a category-page as a parent.
Each category (coffee shop, grocery…) is a page with subpages for the actual places.
Each attribute (address, citysearch url, phone #, hours, wifi…) is a custom tag.
In the page templates, I test for the existence of each tag one by one. If found, it’s displayed appropriately.
I have two custom page templates – one for the place, and one for the place category.

So far, this is scaling well and is easy to manage. To add a new place, I just create a new page with the appropriate template and assign it to the appropriate parent. It’ll then automatically appear where it should.

This is really so far just a fun but useful project because I haven’t found anything like it for my neighborhood so far.

I also have Yahoo maps nearly integrated.

Hi,

What you have done is awesome, I want to do something similar for my website… can you put your steps/code in a way that a WordPress newbie can copy what you’ve done?

Thanks,

Isaac