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[Philip Murray]

Thanks Ernest – that worked – and I do appreciate you are working on a weekend – so thanks for your help

so if I browse the entire ANTIBODY category – https://xenopus.fdmserver.com/antibody you will see lots of results which are paginated

however if i select ANTIBODIES as the category [it is really a CPT of course] in the search drop down and just click SEARCH without entering a search string – I am only seeing one page of results rather than the full list?

How can I fix this please? basically – if I elect a category and don’t enter a search string – all results in that category should be returned and paginated

Thanks

Philip

[Philip Murray]

hi Ernest – hope things are good – just checking on the query above

Thanks

Philip

[Philip Murray]

hi Ernest – I also need some help to get the layout to appear in a single line please

https://xenopus.fdmserver.com

At present the Category selector drop menu sits below the search bar but I want them to look very similar to this https://www.xenbase.org/entry/

Regards

Philip

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[Philip Murray]

Hi Ernest – sorry for the multiple emails – just trying to get this all resolved today for the client

So, I have the basic layout in place on the DEMO SITE – https://xenopus.fdmserver.com — however I have a few questions;

1. how can I style the DROP MENU? I want to make the font the same as the Search box etc – see attached screenshot

2. How can I prevent the search area wrapping when viewed on mobile phone – see attached screenshot

3. so if I browse the entire ANTIBODY category – https://xenopus.fdmserver.com/antibody you will see lots of results which are paginated

however if i select ANTIBODIES as the category [it is really a CPT of course] in the search drop down and just click SEARCH without entering a search string – I am only seeing one page of results rather than the full list?

How can I fix this please? basically – if I select a category and don’t enter a search string – all results in that category should be returned and paginated

Thanks

Philip

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

I’m sorry I couldn’t answer, my inbox was full of queries I needed to answer first.

1. Styling a drop-down is sort of limited to browsers, ajax search pro does not use any custom styles, it falls back to the browser defaults. I recommend using custom CSS for this. Some aspects can be changed, others may not. I recommend checking this and this article about possibilities.

2. You can by forcing a nowrap line break method for the container via custom CSS:

.asp_shortcodes_container {
   flex-wrap: nowrap! important;
}

3. This one is hard to tell, I may need back-end access to check the configuration first. It can be multiple things – like taxonomy or custom field exclusions, limits not set correctly etc..

[Philip Murray]

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Thank you!

I found the issue, the post type results limit for the results page was set to 10, so I changed it to 500 here: https://i.imgur.com/JuGPYJ7.png
It seems to have resolved the problem.

[Philip Murray]

Thanks Ernest

Is there an easy way to export the AJAX PRO search from the demo site and import to the live site?

Regards

Philip

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi Philip,

I’m seeing the drop-down menu on both the demo and live sites.

You can export search bars via the export/import submenu. However I only recommend doing that across test/live sites, where the comlete database is the exact same. Categories can have different IDs on separate installations, that could end up with an issue. In your case it should be okay, as you are not using category exclusions or filters.

[Philip Murray]

Thanks Ernest – all good

Appreciate all your help

Regards

Philip

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