Multiple Listings and Products Showcase Extension for Groups / Communities Plugin enables Group Owners to link / add / associate related Listings, Pages and Businesses to their Groups. Such listings, pages and businesses will be displayed on the Group profiles, thus making the Groups more informative and useful. This extension gives you a wide array of possibilities to extend Groups on your website. The ability to show their various listings, pages, businesses, products, etc on their Groups will also motivate users to create more listings on your website, and keep their Groups updated.
After the overwhelming response we've received for "Groups / Communities Plugin", "Directory / Pages Plugin", "Directory / Businesses Plugin" and "Multiple Listing Types Plugin - Listings, Blogs, Products, Classifieds, Reviews & Ratings, Pinboard, Wishlists, etc All In One", we have moved one step ahead with this extension, as it integrates these 5!
This is a great tool which enables Group Admins to add / link / associate related Listings, Pages & Businesses to their Groups. Such listings / pages / businesses will be displayed on the Group profiles, thus making the Groups more informative and useful.
This extension gives you a wide array of possibilities to extend Groups on your website. The ability to show their various listings, businesses, products, offerings, etc on their Groups will also motivate users to create more listings / businesses on your website, and keep their Groups updated.
Note: This extension of "Groups / Communities Plugin" also requires atleast one of these: 1) Multiple Listing Types Plugin - Listings, Blogs, Products, Classifieds, Reviews & Ratings, Pinboard, Wishlists, etc All In One, 2) Reviews and Ratings Plugin, 3) Directory / Pages Plugin, 4) Directory / Businesses Plugin
- Adding Listings, Pages and Businesses to Groups: Group Admins can add / link / associate related Listings, Pages & Businesses to their Groups. These listings, pages & businesses can be created using the following plugins:
- Example use case: Group Owners can add their Listings created for Food, Room Packages, Services Offered, etc to their Hotel's Group.
- Availability of Listings, Pages & Businesses to be added to Groups can be made dependent on Group Packages and Member Levels. Thus, you can configure this extension such that only Groups belonging to certain Packages (example: paid packages), or Groups administered by members of certain Member Levels (example: priviledged members) will be able to have associated listings / pages / businesses.
- Listings, Pages & Businesses added by Group Admins will be displayed in their respective separate tabs on Group Profile, with a tab each for the different Listing Types, for Pages and for Businesses.
- Links for adding listings, pages & businesses to Groups are available in the Get Started and Apps sections of Group Dashboards.
- Widget to show all the Groups to which a Listing / Pages / Business has been added / associated. This is a widget for the Listing, Pages & Business Profile pages.
- Site Admin can choose which Listings / Pages / Businesses could be added / associated with Groups at any time. These can be: The ones owned by the Group Admin who is adding, or the ones owned by all the Group Admins, or All the Listings / Pages / Businesses on the site.
- Group Profile Listings / Pages / Businesses: Displays listings, pages or businesses added / associated to the Group. This widget can be placed multiple times on Group Profile, and for each widget placement, the respective Listing Type to be shown can be chosen.
- Listing / Pages / Business Profile Linked Groups: Displays all the Groups to which the Listing / Page / Business has been added / associated.
- Choose Listings, Pages & Businesses which would be available to Group Admins for adding to their Groups from the following options:
- Their Own Listings / Pages / Businesses
- All Group Admins' Listings / Pages / Businesses
- All Listings / Pages / Businesses
- Choose to enable adding of Listings / Pages / Businesses from the below plugins to Groups:
- Choose that Groups of which Packages should be able to have associated Listings, Pages and Businesses, and which Member Levels should be able to add / associate Listings, Pages & Businesses with their Groups.
Amongst the numerous integration possibilities with this extension, we are describing 3 example integration use cases below for integration of "Groups / Communities Plugin" with "Multiple Listing Types Plugin - Listings, Blogs, Products, Classifieds, Reviews & Ratings, Pinboard, Wishlists, etc All In One":
- Example 1: Having Movies, Celebrities and Theaters on site, with these 4 inter-linked:
The "Groups / Communities Plugin" is used for creating Groups of Movies.
Different Listing Types are created with "Multiple Listing Types Plugin" for: Celebrities (Actors, Actresses, Directors, etc) and Theaters. You will be able to enable Location for the listings of type Theaters, and can also enable Location and Proximity Searching for Theaters (see demo: http://demo.socialengineaddons.com/properties/map).
With this extension, Celebrities and Theaters (the multiple listings) can be associated / added with Movies (the Groups) [establishing a relation between these].
The Celebrities and the Theaters for a Movie will be display-able on its Group. Also, on the Theater listing, the Movies being played over there will be display-able in a widget. - Example 2: Having Hotels on the site, with their offerings:
The "Groups / Communities Plugin" is used for creating Groups of Hotels.
Multiple Listing Types are created with "Multiple Listing Types Plugin" like: Food, Room Packages, Services Offered, etc. Hotel Group Admins will be able to associate / add their Listings to their Hotel Groups. These Listings will then be visible on the Main Hotel Groups in their respective Listing Type tabs.
The profile of each associated listing type will also show the Hotel Group of the Hotel that offers that Listing. - Example 3: Having Brands, Products and Stores on site, with these 3 inter-linked:
The "Groups / Communities Plugin" is used for creating Groups of Brands.
Different Listing Types are created with "Multiple Listing Types Plugin" for: Products and Stores. You will be able to enable Location for the listings of type Stores, and can also enable Location and Proximity Searching for Stores (see demo: http://demo.socialengineaddons.com/properties/map).
With this extension, Products and Stores (the multiple listings) can be associated / added with Brands (the Groups) [establishing a relation between these].
The Products and the Stores for a Brand will be display-able on its Group. Also, on the Store listing, the Brands available over there will be display-able in a widget.
The following are the requirements for this plugin:
- This plugin is an extension of the Groups / Communities Plugin and thus that plugin must be installed.
- For listings & businesses that can be added to Groups, this extension requires atleast one of the following:
