[Plugin: Dave’s WordPress Live Search] Doesn’t work with Web Optimizer

I found out there’s an AJAX API built into WP that I should probably be piggy-backing onto. Maybe that would fix it?

I’ll try to investigate this week.

No worries. Please update this when you get around to it and I’ll let you know how it goes.

FYI – I don’t think it’s the ajax request. I watched it with FireBug and the response comes back but seems to be ignored by the client-side receiver. The busy animation in the search box continues until you delete all the characters from the search field. It looks like a CSS / JQuery issue. Much more fun.

The same thing happens regardless of whether it is the standard theme, iPhone (wptouch) or mobile (WordPress Mobile Edition). I am also working through the issue with the Web Optimizer people at https://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/issues/detail?id=178&q=wordpress&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Plugin

I have left the plugin activated at https://www.cadbloke.com for your viewing pleasure.

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Update (missed the editing time on the last update) by a couple of seconds)

With Web Optimizer on the ajax response is gzip’d. Would that mean the function looking for the return doesn’t get it? Have a look at the screen grab I posted at the (bloated) Google code URL above to see what I mean.

FYI – it was a bug in Web Optimizer, adding a logo-link to the ajax response. They have a fix coming in the next version.

Also FYI – they said this: “P.S. Testing this situation bring down test web server due to large amount of requests from this plugin. I think it’s not a good choice for a high loaded websites (requests from typed text should be sent in 100 ms each, not with every typed letter).”

I thought you should know. I don’t see this as an issue for my site (I’ll never be that popular) but you may want to consider some type of request-throttling for the popular crowd.

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