{"id":1150741,"date":"2016-08-11T15:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-by-list-of-cities\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:47:51","slug":"filter-by-list-of-cities","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-by-list-of-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter by list of cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a select list of states or cities I want to filter on. <\/p>\n<p>It seems like every time an event is submitted with a venue state and city, a new option value is created, even if the state or city already exists from some other venue. I am making that assumption based on the output of our site. For example, here is the HTML output for the state of CT:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;option value=&#8221;64855,64855,64988,64988,64763,64989,64763,64989&#8243;&gt;CT&lt;\/option&gt;<\/p>\n<p>1) Is my assumption correct?<br \/>\n2) What is the advantage of building the plugin this way?<br \/>\n3) Is there no way to just assign a single option value to a city or state so I can hard code a list of filters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1150741","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Filter by list of cities -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/filter-by-list-of-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Filter by list of cities -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a select list of states or cities I want to filter on. 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