Comments on: Wordpress Custom Fields Search 0.3.13

By: karo

karo — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:12:19 +0000

hi, i used the widget but i have nog widget background?
can someone help me?

By: Donna Vitan

Donna Vitan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:32:42 +0000

Hello Don,

This has been a very useful plugin.

However, my custom template requires that a banner show depending on the category/page you are in and by default should show a certain banner. However, the search results after submitting the form doesn’t show ANY banner at all. So it seems like the search results are in a sort of limbo where the my banner loop doesn’t recognize to show a banner at all.

http://domain.com/?search-class=DB_CustomSearch_Widget-db_customsearch_widget&widget_number=preset-default&cs-Width-0=5-10.99&cs-Length-1=5-10.99&search=Search

I have index.php and search.php using the same template/banner loop and they work fine.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for you time.

By: icecubejackal

icecubejackal — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:39:37 +0000

Hi,

Can you please guide me how to implement the 1 line horizontal search box that look like this:

[Key Words text box][Category drop down][search button]

Your plugin is great im willing to donate if you can help me with this.

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:20:43 +0000

Hi, greatest plugin, really!
The only thing i miss is the opportunity to look also inside the_excerpt and not only in the_content.
I had a lot of info in the excerpt field, but not in the_content, there’s a way to have the search engige looks also in the excerpt?

thx you!

By: Andres

Andres — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:08:32 +0000

Hi Don,

Any news on how to list author´s name in the dropdown?

Would be of great use to me. Thanks!

Congratulations for an excelent plugin!

By: Len

Len — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:41:19 +0000

That must have been one of those “computer glitches” because I had not changed the code/version, and all of a sudden it’s working – and beautifully too.

Just struggling with what to change to make it return search results in the same template as the normal search on my theme (Atahualpa). You kindly said “The plugin should use the search template from your theme, in my theme this is called search.php, although I think if this file is not there it defaults to index.php.” I don’t have a search.php, but there is a searchform.php in the ‘ata’ theme directory. When I copy this & rename to ’search.php’ in the ‘ata’ theme directory, the result is a single search input box and the rest of the page disappears. Could you give me another hint where I might look to change the results to be consistant with the theme’s seearching/sorting.. ?

By: Don

Don — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:15:07 +0000

Jonathon:
At present the plugin sorts the values alphabetically which puts 16M before 1M. I’ll have a think about your problem and see if I can think of a better way to manage this. In the short term there is a possible workaround. You can specify the values manually, so in the DropDown Options field put the value “:ANY,1M – 5M,6M – 10M,11M – 15M,16M – 20M”. If you add new ranges though, you will need to add these into the list.

By: Jonathan Casuncad

Jonathan Casuncad — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:05:11 +0000

I created a drop-down search box using the custom fields. The custom fields I created are price ranges (1M – 5M, 6M – 10M, 11M – 15M, 16M – 20M). The search box works great. My only problem is how do I customize the arrangement of the drop-down options from lowest to highest? Right now, it shows like;

11M – 15M
16M – 20M
1M – 5M
6M – 10M

Thanks a lot!

Jonathan

By: Yash

Yash — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:24:00 +0000

Thanks very much for taking the time to look into the not equal issue. For my purposes the categorized items I am looking to exclude will only ever be in one category so I should be good to go! Thanks again.

By: Don

Don — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:45:57 +0000

Yash: I just had a go at implementing the “not equal” functionality, it’s more tricky than I thought.

At present if you use the “Not Equal” comparison for categories it will return any post which is in any category other than the selected one. So if your post is just in category A. And you search for category not equal to A, you won’t see that post. If the post is in category A and B, you will see it because it is in category B which is not equal to A.

I’ve commented it out in the code as it’s not really working correctly but if this behaviour does fit with what you need it’s on line 303 of wp-custom-fields-search.php in the latest version, you just need to remove the slashes at the beginning of the line.

Getting it to work correctly would require some fundamental re-organisation of the code, so I will leave this on the todo list for now.