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Revision as of 18:28, 8 August 2013
About
Inspiration
A past client's customization project
Benefits
With the categorizer, effectively show your visitors different types of locations using different icons. Even allow them to further filter down to the category that they wish to look at both before (using the Category Search Form) and after (using the Category Map Filters) performing a search.
Usage
Screenshots
- Sl categorizer main settings.jpg
Main settings page for the Categorizer. Associate categories with icons, which then be linked to locations on the Manage Locations page
- Sl categorizer search form settings.jpg
Settings for the category search form which can be placed on a Page or Post
- Sl categorizer readme.jpg
'Categorizer Readme instructions
- Sl categorizer new db field.jpg
The Categorizer automatically creates the custom field 'sl_category' in order for you to distinguish your locations by category or sub-category
- Sl categorizer mng loc w category field.jpg
After automatically creating 'sl_category', it conveniently shows up on your Location Management admin page, and performs just like any default Store Locator field
- Sl categorizer unfiltered results.jpg
Once the Categorizer is active, and locations have been categorized, you will now see Category Map Search Filters above your Map
- Sl categorizer filtered results.jpg
Check any category available, to view only that specific category layer of locations
- Sl categorizer search form1.jpg
Category Search Form Step 1: Choose Main Category (in this case, "Type of Store") to search
- Sl categorizer search form2.jpg
Category Search Form Step 2: Choose Sub-Category (in this case, "Store Name") to search
- Sl categorizer search form3.jpg
Category Search Form Step 3: Choose Zip, City, and/or State to search
- Sl categorizer search form4.jpg
Category Search Form Step 4: Results, only the selected Category from the search appears in the final results
Features
- Use different icons for different map locations based on category assigned to them
- Dynamically filter through category-based layers of locations in search results
- Categorize and sub-categorize locations, and provide a special category-based search form to visitors if desired.
Installation
- Install via the Addons > Marketplace page (visible with Addons Platform installed & activated). It will automatically be installed in your /wp-content/uploads/sl-uploads/addons/ folder
- On Addons > Settings Activate using the same key that was used to activate the Addons Platform for that particular site