Title: Stuttering search function
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Stuttering search function

 *  Resolved [AutoPilotDK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autopilotdk/)
 * (@autopilotdk)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuttering-search-function/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m really loving the plugin after your latest bug fixes, but there’s still one
   thing I think needs some work.
 * When entering a search term, the filtering function displays a list, stutters,
   changes and shows list again… it’s pretty confusing for my users, since they 
   search, then try to click, the list changes and they end up clicking something
   unintentionally…
 * I’ve made a video to illustrate:
    [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYbYQf8Tm4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkYbYQf8Tm4)
 * Have a great weekend!
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 *  Plugin Author [Rustaurius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rustaurius/)
 * (@rustaurius)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuttering-search-function/#post-6534753)
 * Hi Auto,
 * Thanks for letting us know. I think the problem is that the search results update
   with each character that gets typed, instead of waiting a fraction of a second
   for more characters to be typed. We’ll see if we can update the function so that
   it pauses before returning the results to check if another character has been
   entered.
 *  Thread Starter [AutoPilotDK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/autopilotdk/)
 * (@autopilotdk)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuttering-search-function/#post-6534759)
 * No worries.
 * Users typing a long search string will wait quite a while, before actually seeing
   their results, so a slight delay before commiting the filtering sounds like the
   way forward.
 * Perhaps adding some sort of spinner/loader would mitigate the confusion.
 * Anywho – looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with; thanks for your
   work so far 🙂

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuttering-search-function/#post-6534759)
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