We are based in the UK. We are looking forward to using The Events Calendar on the new site I am currently building. There is a facility in The Events Calendar to search by location (the “near location” field).<\/p>\n
If I enter “Birmingham” and click “Find Events” I get a pop-up list asking me to clarify which Birmingham I mean. That would be lovely, but it only offers me a choice of “Birmingham, AL, USA” or “Birmingham, MI, USA” – see screenshot.<\/p>\n
Just to be clear: the Birmingham I want our users to be able to search for is the 2nd city of the United Kingdom, with a population approximately 5 times that of Birmingham, Alabama and 55 times that of Birmingham, Michigan. It is entirely reasonable for a UK-based user (and our membership is predominately in the UK) to want to search for events near Birmingham. Searches for nearby towns such as “Solihull” or “Sutton Coldfield” do return appropriate results.<\/p>\n
Where is this list coming from, and is it editable? Or is there somewhere we can give it a little hint that, in case of doubt, site visitors are probably thinking of the one in the UK? It would be a shame to have to hide the location search, but if it can’t work for such an obvious search then that’s the alternative.<\/p>\n
The same issue occurs on your demo site at http:\/\/wpshindig.com\/events\/ so it doesn’t appear to be a theme issue.<\/p>\n
Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1179997","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n