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Hello,
How can I import a simple csv files with synonyms?ORIGINAL,SYNONYM original1, synonym1 original2, synonym2 original3, synonym3
Json file format is not working for me.
Hi,
Exactly like that. The first word is going to be the original, all the next words on the same line are the synonyms:
word1,syn1,syn2,syn3 word2,syn21,syn22,syn23,syn24,syn25 word3,syn31,syn32,syn33
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Thanks! One more question: how the search can ignore the words with less than four characters?
Hello! I’m having a little trouble with this plugin. Not sure why but the input field is not aligned to the search box. Also the input field has a border around it. It looks fine on the backend and I’ve tried all the settings but it just doesn’t change. Can you help?
https://imgur.com/a/G3U7nKIHi,
It looks like there might be an extra margin/padding added via a 3rd party CSS style. If it’s okay on the back-end, then it’s definitely that.
Please open a support ticket, I will have to check the exact layout via the debugger to see which style overrides the margins/padding and suggest a possible custom CSS to revert it.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
ok thanks, will do.
Hi,
Great plugin – thank you for the hard work.
Quick question:
I was to use the pdf.js viewer plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdfjs-viewer-shortcode/) and host pdf to show them on the front-end. Can this plugin search pdf content?
Hi,
Yes – you can search PDF contents.
With that the plugin is able to search within the files and return them as results.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hi,
The plugin is made to be theme independent. If the theme follows the WP development guidelines then it should work without issues.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
1. Does this plugin autosuggest multiple relevant keywords like the screenshot image? I want multiple keyword suggestions from site data not from Google.
2. I don’t want to display any product on the live search list. I want to show only the suggested keywords. And once someone clicks on a keyword it shows the search result page. Is this Possible?
3. Also I want to keep the theme search result page. Is this possible or your plugin will create its own search result page?
Hi,
1. & 2 Yes & No. The results can’t be turned off for that purpose unfortunately. If there are no results, then the keyword suggestions are printed, not simultaniously.
3. Yes, the plugin can’t affect the layout of the results page, that is controlled by the theme exclusively.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hello,
How do you increase the length of the returned results description, and is it possible to add a read more button after that links to the items dedicated page?
Thank You
Okay, I actually found the answer to both questions here in the comments section. What I can’t figure out how to do is remove the trailing ”...” after the description. Is that possible to remove? Thank you!
Hi,
If the description length is the same as the actual content length, then it’s not added. Otherwise I’m afraid the only way of removing it is programmatically, as it’s hard coded. Something like this may do the trick:
add_filter( 'asp_results', 'asp_remove_the_dots', 10, 1 );
function asp_remove_the_dots( $results ) {
foreach ($results as $k=>$r) {
$r->content = str_replace('...', '', $r->content);
}
return $results;
}
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hi, i saw that we can’t select elementor templates for the search in custom post types. Is there anyway i can only select elementor templates ??
Hi,
Elementor templates are not viewable post types, those are used by Elementor to store the template information only – they are not publicly queriable. Even if they were forced there programmatically, the result would lead to a non-existing template link.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hello, I’m building a filter for my client, in his taxonomy, he has multiple terms including parent and child terms (taxonomy => parent term => child term).
I’d like to know if there is a way to group the filters (checkbox) by parent terms instead of having them only in 1 column, to have the same display as if we were using multiple taxonomies. Thanks
Hi,
I’m afraid that is not yet possible at the moment.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Ok thank you, I managed to do something differently 
Another question, unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible but if you have some tips to do that, I’d like to “disable” (but still visible on front end) some checkbox filters (which are taxonomies or terms). This would be used to create a “free filter” (with the disabled checkboxes) and a “premium filter” (with all checkboxes). The premium filter would be displayed on a page which only the “premium role” users could see. I wanted to do that based on a true/false acf field displayed for taxonomies and terms, but this field is not retrieved into the $filter object (I tried this on the view filter taxonomy checkbox template file).
Do you have another way to do that ? Maybe it could be a feature with a checkbox in the display mode, like the ” Required? ” one.
Thanks
Hello, I use the Dokan plugin. I set it up and everything works great. But I need help with something, in the Dokan plugin, there is a user type: “seller”. However, Dokan allows deactivating “seller” users. How do I hide deactivated “seller” users from search? I would just like to display the ones that are enabled. I already do this today, but I do it manually (in Exclude/Include results).
Hi,
Well, I don’t exactly know how Dokan user metadata is stored and what data do you need to exclude exactly. If these are products of some sort and you want to exclude products from the user type seller, and the “seller” is a user role, then it’s probably not possible only via options. It might be doable via a custom code, but I would have to check it directly.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Yes, in this case I want to hide the Dokan user role. The problem is that the user role for “seller” is the same. Both for activated and deactivated sellers. That is, if you disable one, you will disable both. Is there any solution for this?
If that’s stored in a user meta or something like that, then it’s probably possible in some way. If they have an API way to check the seller status that may also make it possible.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hello, can you kindly show me a sample that will display a WooCommerce product post type that also allows me to see the price and other meta data as well as add to the cart from this sample display.
Also is there any post limits, were it will become slower, what if I have 50,000 products and 500 categories, will I be able to use this the same?
It’s looks very impressive, compared to others I have tested and use, but the output seems limited or I can’t find a workable solution for the need yet.
I already own this https://rb.gy/bz3qi, but the features are more limited than yours, but you have full control over the lout put to make this user friendly.
Also looking for a search that can learn from the use and display results to the user as it learns what people are searching from and display a category and or suggested results as well as the exact results.
Thank you and all the best…
Hi!
The closes examples we have for that are probably the WooCommerce search, as well as the shop search filter examples.
The plugin does not have any set limits, everything depends on the server side. If the server is sufficiently equipped to present and handle the number of products, then it should be all right. 50k products should be no issue if configured properly. I recommend using the index table engine (title + category index, and disable content index for max performance), as well as avoiding any filters if possible.
Learning capabilities of that kind are not implemented unfortunately, as the plugin runs on the local server and usually the resources for deep learning are very limited within WordPress in general. The plugin will display the most relevant results depending on the match types, the occurences and many other factors. We will definitely figure out somethin in the future, which is lightweight enough for WordPress usage.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Ok, can I ask do I have control over the search output UI / html design? Also can the samples you shown be imported in to work with on a staging environment for testing after purchase? Hard to tell what and how this works, until I have tested all the features. My main need will be for product search and a search within results as well to further refine the query. Thank you.
Hi,
You can change most of the visuals on the back-end. For customizing the title/content fields it is best to use the advanced title and content field features. For more in depth customizations there is also a templating system available.
Importing specific setups from one system to another is not possible as the taxonomy, post type and many other object IDs may differ and would very likely cause conflicts. It is much safer and faster to create each search bar from the bottom up, and keep use the import/export feature if some states need to be saved.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hi,
It is not coming from the plugin, the source does not contain those tags. You may have the shortcode in a text only/autotext widget, which conerts whitespaces to html (paragraphs & line breaks). Changing the widget/module type to shortcode or html bases will resolve the issue.
All the best, Ernest
We can exclude posts/pages which have this value: Yoast post settings: Index? -> Not visible for Google. Rankmath post settings: index? -> Not visible for Google.
Posts with no-index we dont wanna in your search. This is possible?
Tommy
Hi,
I suspect this is very likely possible. YOAST usually stores all of this information in a cutom field. Creating an “invisible” custom field filter would allow excluding items where this field is set to false/0.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hello, From some reason, since one of your las updates, your More Results” feature has stopped working, though “Infinite scroll – Trigger loading more results on scrolling near the end of results list” is set to “On”.
Additionally, kindly link your plugin “Update” window and “More Info” window to your changelog page: https://changelog.ajaxsearchpro.com/
Hi,
It is more likely due to something else, as the script files were not altered within the recent release, and it seems to be working all right on all of our test and production server. I suggest clearing up the cache and checking the error console to see if there is anything reported. If no luck, then feel free to open a support ticket, I will investigate it further for your specific case.
I have noted the “update” and “more info” links issue to the issue tracker, they will be corrected in the next update. Thank you for letting us know!
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
hello,is there any option for multi step search filters?
Hi,
I’m afraid that is not yet possible.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
When user is logged out, I get the error “The request failed. Please check your connection! Status: 403”. /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, 403 Forbidden.
Hi,
I recommend checking this documentation. The WordPress ajax handler is restricted, you probably have an incorrect mod_rewrite rule in your htaccess file.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hello, Can you please help me with this? I get duplicated products in the results page: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qxKrWnoutn21SXrqk8F40k5hDaYCNZk7/view?usp=sharing
Just happening for some products, not all of them.
Is there a feature in the settings to “Avoid duplicates in the results”? Thanks.
Hi,
The plugin can’t produce duplicates, because the database selection is distinctive by post IDs, which are unique.
Looking at the page, the post IDs are different, which means that these products are duplicated in the store/database with the same IDs and permalinks. Here are the product IDs underlined, if that helps tracking them down: https://i.imgur.com/FvQLjG0.png
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Thanks!
Hi,
I think I’ve never asked for support but I am facing an issue on one of my sites: For a specific keyword “update”, I don’t want search results that include “date” for example. For keyword “update” I’d like search results to return only exact matches.
Is there a way to create an exception like this for a single keyword?
Thanks
Hi,
Searching “update” will never match the keyword “date”. That only works the other way around – if the keyword is partially/fuzzy matching the content – so only “date” phrase could match “update”. In this case the “update” must match something in the selected fields.
You can create negative keywords of course on the post editor screen.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hi, you’re right I posted it the other way around. Sorry. I will test the negative keyword though I was hoping for a less manual option.
Thanks.
Good afternoon, please tell Ajax Search Pro whether it searches through pages that are translated automatically. If you enter the name in the target language in the search?
Hi,
Only if the translations are stored in the database some way (like separate posts or within a custom field). For example WPML and Polylang plugins are supported, as they store a separate post for translations marked with the language.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Has the plugin been tested by TranslatePress? translations are stored in a separate database.
I’m afraid it won’t work like that. The items will appear translated but only the original language is searched with Translatepress. That plugin uses an external table, which is currently not searchable.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
Hi, tell me please how translate plaseholder text “Search here…”, looks like y forgot add setting for this…. Loco translate olso cant find this text
Hi,
You can simply change that here: https://i.imgur.com/Evg3Cj3.png
Loco translate is for static texts (hard coded) only. This text is changeable, so those can’t be translated via a static translator (.mo/.po) method.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
I used the calendar filter, and it works correctly, but the calendar appears in English and I need to translate it into Spanish. Where can I do it?
Hi,
The calendar date picker is a WordPress core widget, the language and locatization follows the WordPress site language, the translation is automatically set based on that. Make sure the site language is set correctly under the general option. I recommend checking this stack overflow topic about locales for the datepicker.
Best regards,
Ernest Marcinko
