The Money Making Website

Post edited 4:21 am – May 27, 2009 by jahwork

Hi there,

This is the perfect plugin for my needs, but it lacks one key feature for a particular site I'm currently building…

I would like to be able to sort the listing to display in alphabetical order. I am using Address field 2 for Suburb and would like to sort the links alphabetically rather than in the order they were submitted in via admin.

This could also be extended to other fields such as Title. This way, even when a listing is broken down by category, it is still 
readable and easy to find a specific entry.

Thanks,

Ben

Okay, so I believe my usual attention to detail may have overlooked some simple instructions on your wp-directory-list plugin homepage …..

It turns out that the ability to sort is already a feature, one which is set through the shortcode. Apologies for the oversight, my bad!

I do however have one possible feature request (but it may not be widely needed by other users). I have my list setup to sort and display the listing in alphabetical order by the address2 field. It would be great if the plugin added a heading above the listings that share the same sort field… In this case, address2.

Example: I am using address2 in place of suburb. Each entry could be listed under a suburb heading which would make for even easier reference when looking for a business in a particular area.

I realise this is the job of 'categories', but if I keep using categories for suburb as well as the parent directories of state and country, then I will soon be managing over 150 category options! The function also needs to be automated rather than double handling by adding new shortcodes to a page everytime a new suburb is entered into the database.

Any helpful suggestions would be much appreciated!