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Advanced Search Location Search Options

Starting 1.30 theme update, for Advanced Search and Location there are 4 possibilities:

  • Location as input with theme auto-complete
  • Location as a dropdown with theme auto-complete
  • Location as input with Google Places auto-complete or Algolia Places auto-complete
  • Cities and areas as independent drop-downs

Location options apply to all the search types supported:

  1. Search Type 1 – vertical with default fields – more here
  2. Search Type 2 – horizontal with default fields more here
  3. Search Type 3 – horizontal with custom fields more here
  4. Search Type 4 – horizontal with 3 default fields (title keyword, first and 2nd category) + custom search fields – more here

1. Location as input style with theme auto-complete

Data from autocomplete sums all details saved for each listing in these fields:

  • City,
  • Area,
  • State,
  • Country

Demo: https://demo1.wprentals.org/

IMPORTANT:

  • Due to speed reasons, the data for NON-Google autocomplete is generated 1 time per day.
  • Remember that if you want to manually generate the data, go to map section – Generate Data&Pins.

2. Location as drop-down

Showing all cities, areas, countries, states from properties published in the theme database

Data from dropdown sums all details saved for each listing in these fields:

  • City,
  • Area,
  • State,
  • Country

Demo: https://santorini.wprentals.org/

IMPORTANT

  • Due to speed reasons, the data for NON-Google autocomplete is generated 1 time per day.
  • Remember that if you want to manually generate the data, go to map section – Generate Data&Pins.

3. Location as input style with places auto-complete

Demo: https://main.wprentals.org/

Check places type you have setup in Theme options – Map and add API KEY for it as explained in this help: https://help.wprentals.org/article/google-maps-settings/#places_type
  • If use Google places as places type in search form user will have to select the city based on Google Places auto-complete list as displayed on this screenshot.

For this option to work Google API key must be set correctly – see here the help https://help.wprentals.org/article/google-maps-api-unable-to-load-the-map-and-shows-error-this-page-didnt-load-google-maps-correctly-see-the-javascript-console-for-technical-details-2/
  • If in Theme options – Map for Places option is setup to use algolia in search user will have to select the city based on algolia auto-complete list as displayed on this screenshot:

For this option to work Algolia API key must be set correctly – see here the help : https://help.wprentals.org/article/how-use-algolia-places/

4. Cities and Areas as independent drop-downs

  • The last option applies only for search type 3 or type 4.
  • Cities and Areas can be added as separate dropdowns in admin and they show as an independent dropdown in the search form.

Help:

  1. Search Type 3 – horizontal with custom fields more here
  2. Search Type 4 – horizontal with 3 default fields (title keyword, first and 2nd category) + custom search fields – more here

Search type 3 example:

Search type 4 example with the above fields configuration from admin:

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