Search Results Sidebars and URL Length

[tomo_5]

Hi,

Two things:

1) I would like to invoke a sidebar on your search results pages. Is this possible please?

2) After a search results page is displayed we get a very long url: https://buildreview.org/?s=CLT&asp_active=1&p_asid=3&p_asp_data=1&filters_initial=1&filters_changed=0&qtranslate_lang=0&current_page_id=43377

Is there a way to only display the search term like: https://buildreview.org/?s=CLT

Thanks,

Ian

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

1. The search results page itself is not controlled by the plugin, so you can use the theme editor/widgets to place anything you want on the results archive – as long as the theme supports that.

2. Sure, you can change the redirection method. However I still recommend keeping it as is, it’s much better to have those arguments via the default GET method.

[tomo_5]

1) Sorry, I didn’t realise this was the standard search page. I have built new sidebars now so all is well.

2) Why are there so many arguments for a single search string i.e. CLT? It’s pretty ugly like that.

Thanks for your help so far.

[Ernest Marcinko]

2. It’s to send information to the results page handler:
– asp_active -> tells if the query is originated from the plugin and should trigger an override
– p_asid -> unique search ID
– filters_initial & filters_changed -> tells that the form data is initial and form data had not been tempered with yet, so based on that more efficient queries can be constructed
– current_page_id -> used as reference to the originating page ID
Unfortunately there is no other way to send this information.

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