How to customize a website to a specific location selected?

  • If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be extremely grateful! I work in marketing but have web development experience, new to wordpress though. I’m going to be redesigning my work’s new website.

    Here’s my challenge. We have 80+ tire/auto centres and are growing constantly. Currently we have a corporate website and each store has one page under “locations”. Our new website is going to be different. As soon as you enter the website you have to select your nearest location via drop down list. Then when you select your location, you enter the website and it’s completely customized to that location.

    For example, the home page will bring up a photo of the store, content about the store, a map of the store, the name of your selected store will be in the header along with the hours and etc. The menu options will be customized as well, if you select the “Services” page it will bring up that store’s page. And if the store doesn’t offer mechanical services then that menu option for the page would not be there.

    I was HOPING someone could give me an idea of how I would best do this. I was assuming at FIRST that it would require some complex PHP, like when you select your location it assigns a session id or something and then everything is customized to your session ID.

    But, I hear there are plugins that might be able to help me out, and this WordPress Multisite thing as well? Also we rely HEAVILY on SEO so any options must include content that can be indexed by search engines.

    THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP!

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  • Thread Starter treyt42

    (@treyt42)

    thought i’d also add I’m modelling it kind of after
    https://www.saveonfoods.com/

    a grocer who does the same thing, you enter the site and select your location. It then gets customized to your store.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    The only thought that comes to mind is using cookies, and that would be pretty custom code :/ You’d leave a cookie when they make the dropdown selection and use that going forward.

    However that hypothetical is as far as I can go with it.

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