Hi!
1. I just tried and it works on my end: http://i.imgur.com/uTi66iY.png
I disabled the resources and feeds post type filter, and the two posts are there in the results list. I didn’t uncheck the “Free Project Management Courses” and the “Articles” checkbox – it would exclude both of them, because one is in the first category, the other is in the second.
2. Might be possible actually. The plugin has a built in highlighter script, which could be used to highlight terms on the search page. Try putting this custom script code to the search.php file in your theme directory:
[html]
<script>
jQuery(function($) {
aspjQuery("main").highlight(aspjQuery(".probox input.orig").val(), { element: ‘span’, className: ‘highlighted’, wordsOnly: 0 });
});
</script>
[/html]
and also, you need some custom CSS for it:
[html]
span.highlighted {
font-weight: bold;
color: #d9312b;
background-color: #eee;
background-color: rgba(253, 181, 48, 0.57);
}
[/html]
I’m just guessing here, this might not work though.
3. I guess those pages have either some kind of shortcodes as content or custom code or maybe they are just a permalink for a theme file. The plugin tries to get any content possible. However for example the “Blog Articles” page does not actually have any content, it’s only a permalink to redirect to a theme file. It basically orders wordpress to show something on that permalink. I don’t think it’s possible to show any kind of content on these pages within the search results.
4. As I can see your current theme already does that for you, you only need the custom styling CSS code. Every article element on the results page is marked with a CSS class based on the post type. I can see these:
-
type-post
type-page
type-feed
so you can easily make custom CSS to distinguish each type like. For example to change some styles only on “post” results:
[html]
article.type-post {
/* generic custom CSS code */
}
article.type-post p {
/* paragraph, post content custom CSS code */
}
article.type-post h1,
article.type-post h1 a {
/* post title custom CSS code */
}
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