AND vs. OR in Search Query

Ahh yeah this is for an upcoming feature, to be honest I’ve not really got my head around how I would go about adding that in to the layout… Any ideas?

It shouldn’t be too hard to integrate but the main problem is how would I let a user set this option via a shortcode, and how would it appear on the form itself in the frontend. The backend work is pretty simple, just change the ‘+’ symbols for ‘,’ in the URL and most of it will work out of the box.

Thanks!

Cool. With the form options you have available now, checkboxes make the most sense, to me. Currently, if a user checks off more than one checkbox for a certain term, it looks for posts that match both (and so on). If you added a shortcode option called ‘operator’ and allow values similar to a WP_Query; ‘IN’, ‘NOT IN’, ‘AND’. Currently, your plugin uses ‘AND’ (well… something similar to that). ‘IN’ would be like saying ‘OR’.

Does that make sense? In my example, no change to the front-end is necessary. The site owner could decide how they wanted the filter to work and set accordingly. A little text added to the widget area by the site developer could explain to the user how the filter works.

My 2 cents. Thanks for the reply!

Ah yeah I see what you mean, surprised I didn’t really think about that properly. So currently everything is an AND but you might want a user to be able to search within multiple categories… not just posts that are part of all the categories selected (using categories as an example).

I’ll have a think on this.. it might be as simple as sticking a ‘+’ or a ‘-‘ as a prefix to your taxonomy.. where it gets tricky is how to start adding custom text to to each taxonomy (imagine a user has multiple checkbox options, and you might not want the same message for all of them) all within a shortcode.. it’s getting pretty bloated as it is… Any thoughts welcome ??

My thought about that is just to go for it and let the shortcode get large. Then, make a nice widget with some options to make it easier on the user ??

Great plugin, and it saved me a lot of work.

Cheers.

Yeah I agree with that, I’m just trying to balance usability & adding new features against the extra work of creating a configurable settings page which generates different shortcodes for each form (much like contact form 7 does).

Thanks for the feedback, I’ll have a think about how to best implement it but looks like I’ll putting something like this in in the near future, seems like a logical progression.

If you like the plugin please don’t forget to rate it ??

And… done. Cheers.