Regions Control Module
Regions Control Module for Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin – $21.99
The purpose of the Regions Control Module is to facilitate admins who want to have more control over region-related data. If, for example, you want to guard against people posting ads for items that are available for pickup in Paris, France in classifieds targeted to people living in Narragansett, Rhode Island, the Regions Control Module will allow you to restrict all classified ad locations to Narragansett, Rhode Island.
The Regions Control Module is most effectively used on regional classifieds where the location options will not be too extensive. It can run in globalized mode and in fact runs in globalized mode by default; however, in globalized mode you have the potential to create very large lists of states, towns, cities and counties, and the larger your list, the more slowly your search feature will work.
With the regions control module installed, the ad posting format is altered to eliminate the loading of regions that do not pertain to the main region selected by the ad poster. There are some preliminary steps the ad poster must take before the ad forms load. Those steps involve selecting the primary region (a country), the secondary region (a state/town) and then the city, township or other municipality. Of course if these options are turned off in your options settings this step is not activated.
The regions control module comes with world continents and countries by default. In order to for it to work effectively, you, the admin, will have to add your sub-regions. For example, if you have the regions control module installed and you are running a classifieds in the United States, you will need to add the US States using the module’s Add Region(s). If you have the city field enabled and you want to control the cities that get entered you will need to use the Add Region(s) tab again to add your cities. You can add any type of region; however you will want to be careful that you are correctly labeling your regions. Since the module already has the world continents and countries there should be no reason for you to add continents and countries unless you know of continents and countries that have been omitted from the list.
You can disable regions at any time, re-enable them if you need to.
The Localize Module tab is the tab that allows you to narrow your regions down. You can get as specific as you desire but keep in mind that as you narrow it down the top level regions become unavailable. For example, if you localize the module all the day down to Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn will be the only location option available.
The Regions Control Module comes with an option to add selected regions to a sidelist for front page display as shown in the screenshot below ( You have control over the regions that get displayed in the sidelist:
When a region is clicked from the sidelist the user’s browsing will be narrowed to that region so only ads from that region will show up when the user browses. Also if the user tries to place the location options will be narrowed down the to active region. The user can unlock the locked locations if that is not where they wish to post their ad.
If you have questions about the Regions Control Module please use the contact form to make an inquiry.
Overall the Regions Control Module provides a useful management tool for those admins who want to have more control over the locations fields namely country, state, city, county/village/other.
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| Regions Control Module | $21.99 |
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I have only one question about this module? Will I need to replicate all the categories to each region, or will it do it automatically? Since I am designing a craigslist like site, this is a critical question
Thanks
Larry
Larry, no you will not need to replicate the categories
2 part question
1. I purchased and installed looks good so far, but for right now I only want the US regions. When I disabled the other countries I got this warning.
Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/sinnersp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin/awpcp_region_control_module.php on line 817
Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/sinnersp/public_html/wp-content/plugins/another-wordpress-classifieds-plugin/awpcp_region_control_module.php on line 837
2. If I localize the module only to the US, can it be UNlocalized later or do I need to reinstall everything?
Thanks
Jake
OK disregard question # 2. Now one (hopefully) last question and I will be a happy camper.
My main region is USA, cool, and first state is Texas. I loaded a bunch of cities and they all show, BUT two little things occur
1. Is the module only supposed to show ads posted to those cities, or to all cities? Currently, most of the ads are for Houston with a couple from San Antonio and Dallas. However, when I click on Dallas or San Antonio ALL Ads show up.
Maybe I missed something in the setup instructions, I don’t know. Hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
Thanks
Jake
Question # 2 is how doI change the order of appearance in that right nopw they show two or three links across and I would rather have them in a straight down, (vertical ) order Under Texas.
Ideally, I would Have US as Mega Parent, States as Parent, and then cities ala Craigslist
Thanks again, and this IS a great program!
Jake
OK, I reinstalled the module, after dropping the database table.
I am still having the issue of ads that are posted to Houston are showing up in other regions, and I localized it for right now to Texas. I also did a test post to San Antonio and that ad shows in Houston. I thought by localizing this it would limit the display of ads to the particular city.
Any thoughts or ideas would really help, as this is what is hanging me up from having my onw Craigslist
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Thanks in Advance for any help
Jake, there should be a class for the sidelist in your css file. Just remove the float:left and that should take care of it. Let me know if it doesn’t work
Hi Jake, yes, it should only show the listings for the region. If you have the module running, once you click through to a region, it should show listings for that region only so if it is not doing that there’s a problem that needs checking. You can contact me via the contact form if you wish and I’ll be happy to take a look