Multiple maps

The thing that would make this easier would be something like a ‘not_in_category’ short code attribute, but that doesn’t exist yet. Then you could do [wpsl not_in_category=”italy”].

How many locations are we talking about? You can’t create a world category, and leave out the once you assigned to the Italy category? Then you could do [wpsl category=”italy”] and [wpsl category=”world”] or use wpsl_map instead if you don’t want to use the search option.

Yes, I could do that way, but I lose sub-categories in Italy map.
The best thing should be this:
– category “Italy” (emty, in my case: I only have elements in subcategories)
— subcategory “AAA” (800/900 elements)
— subcategory “BBB” (10/20 elements)
– category “World” (40/50 elements)

Then, 2 pages, one with [wpsl category=”Italy”] and one with [wpsl category=”World”]

This, now, is not working, ’cause the category dropdown menu is not showing subcategories “AAA” and “BBB”

Sorry Tijmen for me to insist, my boss is pressing me…. ??

Is there a way to obtain that behaviour (the post above)?

Sorry again ??

The category attribute isn’t supposed to render a dropdown filter. What it does is that it automatically restricts the searches to the provided category slugs.

But I will take a look at the code tomorrow, and see what I would need to change to make the dropdown show up, and only show the sub categories if the filter option is enabled.

I found a solution to this problem, it involves the ‘wpsl_dropdown_category_args’ filter.

What the code below does is change the values used to generate the dropdown based on the current page.

It will either show the sub categories, or just a single category. You do have to adjust the values, but it works for me.

You can find the used cat ids on the ‘Store Categories’ page. The code has to go in the functions.php inside your active theme folder.

add_filter( 'wpsl_dropdown_category_args', 'custom_dropdown_category_args' );

function custom_dropdown_category_args( $args ) {

    if ( is_page( 'my-italy-page' ) ) {
        $args['child_of'] = 7; // The ID of the Italy category.
    } else if ( is_page( 'my-world-page' ) ) {
        $args['include'] = 11; // The ID of the world category.
    }

    return $args;
}

If you use the above code, then you don’t need to use the category attribute anymore on the wpsl shortcode. So only need to use [wpsl] to make it work.

Thanks man. I’ll try as soon as possible…

I’m doing some tests…

There’s some (little) problems:
– ‘World map’ case, two categories come out (“All” and “World”), but I solved with shortcode [wpsl category=”world”] that doesn’t show any category, as I want.
– ‘Italy map’ case, three categories come out (“All”, “AAAAA, “BBBB”), but in result list world items appear. Only when I check AAAA or BBBB the results are correct.

I (you) should set a filter on the first load page. ??

And what about to update the list even when the user changes the category dropdown menu element, without have to fill-in the city input and click “search”?
(The page opens, and All markers are displayed. Next AAAAA is selected and list and map update automatically… so with BBBBB… or All….)

UPDATE:

for the ‘Italy map’ case, I found a solution:
$cat_filter=” in class-frontend.php (section “Check if we need to filter the results by category”) I replaced it with:

$cat_filter = “INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_relationships AS term_rel ON posts.ID = term_rel.object_id INNER JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy AS term_tax ON term_rel.term_taxonomy_id = term_tax.term_taxonomy_id AND term_tax.taxonomy = ‘wpsl_store_category’ AND term_tax.term_id IN (83,84)”;

83 and 84 are the two category AAAAA and BBBBB

Now, it seems to work, both Italy and World maps….

Obviously, If you have a best solution it would be appreciated
(even for the realtime-update-category-changes thing)

Anyway, I offer you a coffe… A symbolic thanks ??

It’s possible the transient cache messes with the results, so make sure after you changed something to go to the WPSL settings page -> Tools -> clear the transient cache.

To make a default selection ( you can only use 1 ID ), add this line with the corresponding ID to the code I posted above.

$args['selected'] = 11;

This will auto load the locations that belong to the category with ID 11. Not a solution for the Italy case, but it will work for the World category. But you could of course also assign the category from the child cats from Italy to Italy itself, and then set the selected ID to Italy.

Maybe this “But you could of course also assign the category from the child cats from Italy to Italy itself, and then set the selected ID to Italy. ” Isn’t such a great idea, because it would require the Italy category to show, which you don’t want.