{"id":974307,"date":"2015-07-01T16:08:30","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/map-search-venues-use-as-a-directory-service\/"},"modified":"2015-07-21T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T14:05:04","slug":"map-search-venues-use-as-a-directory-service","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/map-search-venues-use-as-a-directory-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Map &amp; search Venues \/ use as a Directory Service?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used Events a ways back, and recall there being a venue post type? Let me know if this would be possible ( I can code, but appreciate letting me know if I&#8217;d be bending things too far):<\/p>\n<p>1) Rename Venue to &#8220;Practitioner&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>2) Give &#8220;Practitioner ability to upload their own info, photo etc. <\/p>\n<p>3) Show Practitioners on the map &#8211; have a map view where someone can search for a practitioner in their city\/state\/country \/ x miles of postal code. <\/p>\n<p>The rest, I know works. Here is the use case.<\/p>\n<p>The company certifies Practitioners who offer services. BTW these are like psychologists this is not for escorts or anything dodgy! <\/p>\n<p>So one use is &#8212; I want to find someone a Practitioner to book an appointment for therapy. <\/p>\n<p>The second use is &#8212; Practitioners host workshops and other events &#8211; so obviously the Events Community plugin comes into play here.<\/p>\n<p>The main business also has events &#8212; and I was going to recommend Tribe for that anyway &#8211; but there is this directory thing happening and I&#8217;ve worked with some directory plugins \/ themes but compared to Tribe, they are not coded, documented, or supported as well as your product. <\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; can it be done? Turn The Events Calendar into a Directory Listing + Events feature for this business?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the 411&#8230; I hope I can use Tribe as the backbone for this &amp; if you know of any examples kind of doing this, I&#8217;d love to see their setups. <\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; if Ameet Mehta rings a bell, I&#8217;m the one who put him &amp; XLR8R onto you all&#8230; I hope that was a good thing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Jason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-974307","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>Map &amp; search Venues \/ use as a Directory Service? -<\/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\/map-search-venues-use-as-a-directory-service\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Map &amp; search Venues \/ use as a Directory Service? -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I used Events a ways back, and recall there being a venue post type? 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