Scheduled Sections Showing In Search

  • My page, “Indoor Vendor Registration” has two sections–one that is visible now to collect registrations, and one that is scheduled to be visible later this summer when registration has ended. However, if a vendor searches for the registration page on our site, the first search result returned to them is of the hidden section, followed the a search result for the active section. Both search results return to the same page and end up showing only the active section, but it is incredibly confusing for vendors trying to register. It makes it appear that registration has already closed when in reality, it is still open for months!

    My two questions are:
    1. Why are these two sections (on the same page) showing as two separate search results.
    2. More importantly–why is the hidden section showing in the search results at all? Isn’t it supposed to be hidden?

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  • Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    Hi there,
    Can you see these sections when logged out in the same URL? Currently when visiting this page I dont see these sections you refer to

    Thread Starter smhcis

    (@smhcis)

    Yes, I can see the same results even when logged out. Here you can see the same thing happening for both the Indoor Vendor Registration and the Outdoor Vendor Registration pages. https://www.cowleycountyfair.com/?s=vendor+registration

    Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    Hi there
    https://www.cowleycountyfair.com/outdoor-vendor-registration-form/
    and
    https://www.cowleycountyfair.com/indoor-vendor-registration-form/
    are published pages, so they appear correctly.

    With Scheduled Plus you can set date/time-based display restrictions on every Elementor widget available but not pages! For pages you will need another plugin not related to Elementnor

    Can you explain what are you trying to achieve? Do you have scheduled elements in these pages that appear while they shouldnt?

    Thread Starter smhcis

    (@smhcis)

    Looking at just the Indoor Vendor Registration page…if someone uses the search bar on my site it pull two results for the same page “Indoor Vendor Registration”. The first result is for the section that is visible from 2022-07-15 23:59. The second result is for the same page, but the section that is visible until 2022-07-15 23:59.

    I’m not trying to hide additional pages, but if I have a section hidden on a page, I don’t want the content of that section to show in search either.

    Please note, I am using the WordPress built-in search–not a third-party plugin.

    Plugin Support Fotis

    (@markwaregr)

    Hi,
    This section is not controlled by Elementor, so you will need to add a manual excerpt https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/excerpt/ which will appear instead of part of the content in search pages

    You can try this: Open template-parts/search.php and remove this line 

    
the_excerpt();

    from inside.
    Another way would be to make the excerpt smaller https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/wordpress-excerpt-length/ in order not to include the section hidden.

    I will be checking with our engineers if there is a way to hide only your hidden/scheduled sections in non Elementor pages and ping you back for a better solution though.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Fotis.
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