Hi Ernest,
I just wanted you to know that I appreciate your support and don’t take it for granted. I work with a lot of developers and plugin authors, and very few of them are as generous with their time as you. It’s greatly appreciated.
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Content-Types in Titles
You actually missed the important part of this item. I’m copying it below for you…
There is only one remaining issue:
We use the term “Subcategories” instead of “Tags,” and right now this is displaying the word Tags. Can you add two fill-in-the-blank options to the filter so that when this option is enabled we can specify the names for the categories and tags taxonomies? It is displaying the correct word for categories by the way, but I figured we should include options for both taxonomy names.
To further clarify, this is for the content-type title option that allows us to separate and display the taxonomy types. We simply need to be able to specify the names of those separate types. Without this ability I couldn’t even use this option as we don’t use the term “tags” on the site at all.
Related Question:
Well the category and tag filters are actually separate, so I am not exactly sure, you might be reffering to something else here. I mean the filter by tags option, which is a differnt option from the category filters: https://i.imgur.com/Yrrh45Q.png
You actually misunderstood what I was referring to. What I want to separate is the content-type filter option for taxonomies. If you include the taxonomies in those filters it displays a single filter option that includes both categories and tags. What I would like to have is separate content-type filters for categories and tags. As to your point above, yes, we use those filters as well so users can select/exclude individual categories from the search (we don’t use the tags filters because we have endless tags). But we also use the content-type filters and this is where it combines the taxonomies into a single option.
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Adding Comments to the Content-Type Filters
That is exactly what I am going to do, include it as a separate element within the content type filters. (as it should have been there already)
Thank you for adding this. When you do add it please make sure the name of the filter can be customized as we can currently do with the other options. I’ll be naming this “Contributions” instead of “Comments.”
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Missing Label Options for Filter by Format and Filter by Categories
Thank you for letting me know. I will have to cross-check this as well, and make sure to include the options missing in the next release.
I’ve listed this here again so we don’t forget about it. I also wanted to let you know that what is specifically missing are the label text options for Filter by Format and Filter by Categories. Both of these are under this settings screen: Front-End Search Settings > Categories & Taxonomy Terms. I think the reason this was never included is because both of these filters are setup in the same screen.
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Including the Post-Formats in Titles (In Addition to the Content-Types)
I might be able to modify the previous code to include that in the titles as well. Let me know, if you are interested in that.
Of course I am interested! This is why I asked about it . This would be extremely helpful for our platform. If you can add this to the content-type title code that would be perfect.
I think this should be structured as another option, with the ability to turn it on/off. Please keep in mind:
– The post-format would have to display beneath the content-type (this only applies to posts).
– All of the post-format names need to be customizable.
– This will have to work with the default post-format as well (we call it “Article”).
If you can accomplish this it would be amazing (and very much appreciated)!
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New Bug Related to the No Results Container
That is a very rare issue, I have actually investigated and fixed some instances of it before. It happens, when the predicted number of results is not accurate, and the plugin tries to load more – but instead it gets the no-results box.
The inaccuracy is usually due to a custom code, that may affect the results count after the search is finished. I don’t recall if I suggested anything similar to you before. But if there was any custom code that may alter the number of results in any way, that I suggested, then that would explain it.
I have noted this as an issue, and I think I know a way to fix it once and for all. Expect a bugfix for this in the upcoming release.
I don’t know of any custom code we have that would affect the number of search results, but we are using a great many options in the plugin and have a lot of custom code in place that affects the images displayed in the search result thumbnails.
There is one filter we are using that may have something to do with this. It removes the default (article) post-format from search results if it’s not selected in the search settings. We had to use this filter because of some of our other configuration options. Perhaps this is responsible.
I can tell you that this issue is happening for us on every single search. I think you’re correct that it has to do with the predicted number of results. We definitely need to fix this one as it is a very visible problem. I hope you can solve it!
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I think that covers everything…
Thank you as always Ernest!
~ Michael