Initial Setup Questions / Issues

  • WPBurger

    (@wpburger)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Apologies if these are dumb questions:

    1) Why doesn’t your search seem to work by searching the post/page content? I only see that it searches by title, category, tag, etc … why not content? Since it does not seem to index the actual post content, it is missing a huge number of posts that contain the keyword I’m searching for, simply because that keyword is not in the post Title.

    2) I have some shortcode that appears on some of my Pages. Its [share-buttons] and it populates the facebook/twitter/google+ share buttons on my pages. For some reason when I built my index, in the admin, at the top of the page, it said [share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons][share-buttons] all across the top. When I search something on the site front-end, the page goes blank, this appears for just a moment:
    [share-buttons]
    [share-buttons]
    [share-buttons]
    [share-buttons]
    …and then it loads the search results. Why? How can I fix these things?

    3) I had this same problem with default WP search: My “Page” results look drastically different than my “Post” results. In your plugin, my page results look even more abnormal. The entire header image from the “Page” is displayed full size on the search results page. You can search “Tricomin” on my site to see an example https://www.hairlosstalk.com/ . The first result is a “Page” (huge full size header image in search results). The “Posts” below that display properly.

    4) Can you show me where I define the URL of the post/page I want to appear when someone searches for certain terms? Such as: they type Tricomin into the box and I can define which page appears at the top, possibly even the top 10, and define what order they’re in?

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  • Plugin Author Mikko Saari

    (@msaari)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    1. The search on your site works on post content. Try searching for “efficacious”, which doesn’t appear in titles, yet finds several posts.

    2. That share-buttons shortcode is probably using a filter hook to add itself onto the page, but isn’t checking if it’s the right place to add it. (Those share buttons are not even working on all pages; on some pages I see the [share-buttons] shortcode instead of the actual buttons. Seems to me that plugin is slightly broken.) Which plugin this is?

    3. That’s how your theme is set up. The page image gets different HTML code that makes it display page-wide, while the post image gets HTML code that makes it smaller. Do you have access to theme support, or a developer who set the site up for you? They should be able to help.

    4. There’s a really easy-to-use feature for this in Relevanssi Premium. You can list keywords on the post edit page, and if the post matches the keywords, it’s on top. There’s no way to set the order, though, the posts appear in the order they would normally appear in the results.

    This feature is based on relevanssi_hits_filter filter hook which lets you reorder the results the way you want to, so if you don’t want to pay for it, you can develop something similar yourself.

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