root search issue

on my other site, having the landing shortcode below the sequence works, and the root search works.;; but when i try this order on the heartdoodle site it still returns photos from all albums rather then just the root album.

Here is example on other site that is working. It’s same theme. https://www.oisheichildrensmosaic.org/abc

[wppa type=”slide” album=”59″]Any comment[/wppa]
[wppa type=”search” root=”#59″ landing=”1652″]Any comment[/wppa]
[wppa type=”landing”]Any comment[/wppa]

Please tell me what i have to enter on what page to see what wrong results

here are two names…. on heartdoodle.com

Bill is in album 4
Gwen is in album 15

it should only return album 4 pics. but it also returns other albums pics.

https://www.heartdoodle.com/heartdoodle-bflo/

it is set up to return root album 4

[wppa type=”slide” album=”4″][/wppa]
Did you submit your Heartdoodle? Search for it by name:
[wppa type=”search” root=”#4″ landing=”574″]Any comment[/wppa]

Gwen should not be in the search result on this. she is in album 15
Anthony is in album 15 also

would it help you for me to give you admin permissions to sign on to the back end to wee all the wordpress pages, etc? If so, let me know.

Please install the latest development version
I made a change that will likely fix it. At least there are a few more diagnostic messages so i can better see what is going on.

ok, its working now…. why? ha ha…. i mean why has it been working on my other site as the older version and not on this site until now?

I changed:

if ( wppa( 'occur' ) == '1' && $wppa_session['has_searchbox'] && ! wppa( 'in_widget' ) ) {

into:

if ( wppa( 'occur' ) == '1' && ! wppa( 'in_widget' ) && ( $wppa_session['has_searchbox'] || isset( $_REQUEST['wppa-forceroot'] ) ) ) {

This means that ‘it is root search now’ ( when it is already searching now ) not only when there is a box on the page that you can have ticked for rootsearch, but also when wppa-forceroot is set ( i.e. our case on submitting the search with forced root ). Are you still with me?

lol, no, but as long as it is working and will continue to work on any site when updates come through then that’s good with me.

Thanks for correcting it. That feature is vital to my applications.

and, i assume that any new album that i set as a child of the searched root album will also show up, correct?

In human words: the program checks if it might be rootsearching if a root-search tick box has been seen on the page. Now, it also checks if it is rootsearching just because of the force-root argument, regardless of the checkbox’s existance.

Yes, the root includes all sub-sub-albums:

$root_albs = wppa_expand_enum( wppa_alb_to_enum_children( $root ) );

example: makes from 16 ( album 16 ) 16.17.123.12 where 17 is a child of 16, and 123 and 12 are children of 17, rsulting in query

...  AND album IN (16,17,123,12) ...

This patch will stay in future releases.

great , thanks! hey if its simple, can you tell me how to change “No photos found matching your search criteria.” to something else? its not that important but it would be nice to know. Thanks!

Anyhow, you are great, thanks for the help! I hope to leave you alone for a while!

Make a copy of …/wp-photo-album-plus/theme/wppa-theme.php and place it in your theme ( template ) folder.
Edit this copy, near the bottom you will find the text to edit.
Now tick the box in Table IV-A17: Use customized theme file.

This will be update safe until the wppa-theme.php is modified by me.

Thanks, it worked, all set