Comments on: Wordpress Custom Fields Search 0.3.15

By: ompiang

ompiang — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:11:43 +0000

Cool! Thanks for shared nice info.

By: Eos

Eos — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:39:25 +0000

Okay, I would have saved myself an insane amount of trouble if only I’d discovered this sooner! You’re amazing for having created such a useful script.

I’m now trying to modify the display a bit. Is there any way to replace the “ANY” in the dropdown with the “Label”?

By: Joe McDonald

Joe McDonald — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:53:23 +0000

Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me here as I am at my wits end with this as I am working on a media website for congressional clips and need a functional search:

1) is it possible to have one field search two custom fields? Right now, unless I am doing something wrong, I can only get one custom field per entry.

And 2) Able to only search full words. So when you type in AIG campaign does not come up. Is there a use of wildcards ect…

Any help on this would be appreciated and if someone has experience coding this please contact me at joe@damoclesdesigns.com

Joe

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:13:16 +0000

Great plugin! I am having some issues using this plugin with a very large database of about 20,000 posts, searching only one custom field. The results page times out for results over about 20 it seems and renders a blank page. Other than raising the max execute time for PHP, is there anything else I can do or create an error message to prevent the blank page?

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:58:07 +0000

Great plugin ben, is there anyway of changing the plugin so it uses its own independant url when searching rather than piggy backing the root url?

Is causing a few issues with my template and setup etc…

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:30:06 +0000

Don, PLEASE fix plugin for multiple checkboxes.

By: Ton

Ton — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:08:36 +0000

I am trying to decrease the size of the fields in the search form. They are too long. Here is the search form in my style.css but nothing I do is changing the length. I am doing something wrong or not in the right place. Can someone give me some advice?

/* search form */
.searchform {
display: inline-block;
font-size: 100%;
padding: 0;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
.searchform .searchfield {
/* width: 50px;*/
padding: 4px 7px 2px 5px;
color: #999;
border: 1px solid #888;
margin-top: 6px;
}

.searchform input[type="submit"].searchsubmit {
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0 0;
height: 24px;
width: 12px;
border: none;
cursor: pointer;
text-indent: -999%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0 3px 0 3px;
}

Here is the actual page.

http://www.eyestrane.com/custom-search-page/

Thanks!

By: ole

ole — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:18:15 +0000

This is a great plugin. Is there a way to sort the search results by title or custom field value?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:10:11 +0000

Sorry guys, I haven’t had any luck in getting multiple checkboxes to work I’ve emailed Don asking for a quote if he can fix it.

The only way I have managed to get this to work (which was an incredibly poor hack) was to create a new field for every checkbox option (eg, one field for Red, one field for Green etc – instead of having one comma seperated list in a single field). This does work, but it required exhaustive changes to the CSS and template to hide all of the additional labels etc. It certainly couldnt be used on a live site.

By: Noel

Noel — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 22:05:18 +0000

Thanks for the very useful plugin.

Is there a premium version or a way to remove the footer “DB WordPress plugin”? This site is for a client and they don’t care about branding.

Hope you understand.