Combine results?

  • Resolved scmsteve

    (@scmsteve)


    1 year, 7 months ago

    It seems unintuitive to have the results separated by “Pages” and “Posts”, as the user won’t know what type of content it is they are looking for. Ideally, especially for a general search, it would be ideal to have pages, posts and products be intermingled in the results list.

    Is this achievable?

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  • Plugin Author CodeManas

    (@codemanas)

    Hello @scmsteve ,

    The reason the results are separated is two fold.
    1. Easier to distinguish what you’re looking for
    2. Data structure for different Posts/Pages/Categories etc.

    The main challenge when unifying your Posts, Pages, Categories etc is that you will need a unified schema for all your data / collections – due to the inherent flexibility of wordpress this is very hard to achieve automatically.

    It is technically possible to combine it into a unified/omni search but – this needs to be done via code.

    The following link is a starting point https://github.com/codemanas/omni-search/tree/master but will need your own modifications to make it work for your system.

    Plugin Contributor digamberpradhan

    (@digamberpradhan)

    Hi @scmsteve ,

    Just writing to follow up. Were you able to implement what you were looking for ?

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