Search UK Only

  • Resolved Brack29

    (@brack29)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m currently having a website built for me by a professional developer which will use your Events Calendar plugin to sell training courses being run from 45 venues in the UK.

    Currently, when ‘Birmingham’ is typed in the ‘Near’ field, two US locations appear as live suggestions (Alabama & Mississippi), but Birmingham UK doesn’t appear at all – despite the fact that we have a large training venue in Birmingham (UK). Which will mean that none of our potential customers using your search form will currently be able to find and book a place at this venue.

    I was hoping that the search form could be set up so that only UK cities appear? But my developer has said that The Events Calendar uses a Google API for searches, so this problem can only be fixed by Google. Is this entirely accurate?

    Any suggestions to correct or work around this fault will be very gratefully receieved. So, thanks in advance for your help!

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  • I’ve actually seen a request like this come up recently! Unfortunately, though, there is no simple way to filter the location search to a particular country or region in The Events Calendar without some greater degree of custom development.

    I can say that the plugin uses Google Maps for the functionality so, if you’re comfortable working with the Google Maps API, then it’s likely possible that you could hack something together.

    https://developers.google.com/maps/web/

    Thread Starter Brack29

    (@brack29)

    Thanks Geoff,

    I was wondering if there might be some way to automatically (and invisibly) add “UK” to every search performed, because currently typing “birmingham

      uk

    ” in the search form is the only way to make this particular venue appear within the results?

    Might this potentially be possible? And if so, would the javascript of your plugin files have to be edited to do this – or is there be a less ‘invasive’ way of adding this particlar functionality?

    Thanks again.

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