WP Store Locator – change of result order based on category

This can be done, but only if your comfortable with code.

If requires this filter, that allows you to access the data just before it’s returned. So you can loop over it, and check the terms data and sort it accordingly.

How to include the terms data in the results is explained here.

You also want to include this code to make sure the actual user input is included in the AJAX data, which you can use to determine is the user searched for location a or b.

function wpsl_statistics_js_settings( $settings ) {
    
    $settings['collectStatistics'] = true;
    
    return $settings;
}

add_filter( 'wpsl_js_settings', 'wpsl_statistics_js_settings' );

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by Tijmen Smit.

Thanks Tijmen for the quick response.

I included the below code in the function.php of the child theme. But the results remain the same, the results are not sorted based on category.

add_filter( ‘wpsl_store_meta’, ‘custom_store_data’, 25, 25 );

return $store_meta;
}

Can you please advice me what values I need to pass in the function add_filter( ‘wpsl_store_meta’, ‘custom_store_data’, 10, 2); in place of 10 and 2. I have 100 stores so how can I pass the values for store ids?
My category ids are 25,24 and 27 for clothing, shoes and watch stores.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards
Celin

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by celin007.

Thanks Tijmen for the quick response.

I included the below code in the function.php of the child theme. But the results remain the same, the results are not sorted based on category.

add_filter( ‘wpsl_store_meta’, ‘custom_store_data’, 25, 25 );

function custom_store_data( $store_meta, $store_id ) {

$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $store_id, ‘wpsl_store_category’ );

$store_meta[‘terms’] = ”;

if ( $terms ) {
if ( !is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {
if ( count( $terms ) > 1 ) {
$location_terms = array();

foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
$location_terms[] = $term->name;
}

$store_meta[‘terms’] = implode( ‘, ‘, $location_terms );
} else {
$store_meta[‘terms’] = $terms[0]->name;
}
}
}

return $store_meta;
}

Can you please advice me what values I need to pass in the function add_filter( ‘wpsl_store_meta’, ‘custom_store_data’, 10, 2); in place of 10 and 2. I have 100 stores so how can I pass the values for store ids?
My category ids are 25,24 and 27 for clothing, shoes and watch stores.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards
Celin

Including the terms data is only part of a few steps you need to take.

You need to write code yourself to loop over there results with this filter, and compare the user input with whatever you want to sort the results on, and based on that change the sorting based on the terms values ( the category ids ).

The user input itself is only accessible in $_REQUEST if you include the code snippet from this post.

There’s unfortunately no easy solution for this.

Is it possible to include this as a premium addon for the plugin ?