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Need help/advise on what plugin I can use to achieve the following.


I have a wordpress site that I need to do the following.
When a user goes to the site it can/will determine their location and a list of local business will be displayed. I would like the option to be able to pre determine the business type of course and provide a list for the area they are in.


Trying to find something but no luck as of yet. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author exd777
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  • Profile picture of the author tedobee
    Thank you Santosh. Now knowing the term "geotargeting" im finding a bit more info for what im looking for. Hopefully i'll find what I nned.
    Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author tedobee
    Still at a loss, been searching all day. Perhaps im just overlooking it or searching wrong thing.
    An example what im trying to do would be the following:
    -User goes to website.
    -Site will display gas stations in the current area perhaps using google places or something similar.

    thanks much again
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    I see here a typical WP user mistake when looking for some "almighty" plugin.

    So, let's go step by step to figure out where did you go wrong...

    1. You didn't realize you are asking for 2 [TWO] different tasks to be performed by one single plugin:
    a) to determine the location of the user
    b) to display certain type of businesses in the user's area

    - Doing a) is the easier part: as it was mentioned above, the geotargeting and/or determining location by IP is a relatively simple task
    - however, to be able to do b)... you need to have those businesses in a database and retrieve them with the proper filters (=location). It doesn't matter whether the database is on your server or at a third party: the issue is the same. Have access to it and be able to display the filtered results.

    NOT likely to find any plugin doing all that stuff...

    To be honest, I am even questioning using WP for something like that. I am not saying it's impossible... but I am not sure WP is the best script to achieve something similar to what you want.
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