Search Results Problem

Hi, Mileages:

We emailed a bit about this. Since this is, in essence, a WP core question, let’s see what the community has to offer in terms of suggestions.

If it makes sense to do so, we can probably work this feature into PLP in the near future.

Keep me posted on ideas.

Thanks!

Hey man,

That would be a great feature and I bet the community would enjoy it as well. I will be actively searching more about this tomorrow, but so far I haven’t come up with a solution. I’ll keep you posted on any progress.

Thanks for the help!

I have been trying a number of solutions today without luck. Still pressing on, but it’s rather frustrating.

Here’s one page I checked out…
https://www.kevinleary.net/wordpress-pagination-paginate_links/

But the code didn’t work for me, I still only get the post link, and no link to any subpages of pagination.

A lot of what I search for ends up being total pagination replacements, which isn’t what I need. And the odds of any solution talking properly with PLP are rare. Also searches can be a little ambiguous as you end up finding code that just makes the search results have a paginated look if there’s more then a set number of results, which isn’t what I need.

Instead what I need is a solution to the search results itself in what links are shown and that it links to the subpage of a post, not the post itself. It makes finding a solution tricky, or at least it has been so far.

For me I’m also wrapping my head around the logic a bit. If PLP breaks pages based on paragraphs (I use 5 paras) then how does the search function know where the pagination appears and how could the code of the search know how to get the links? Are the links that PLP builds at the bottom of a page (next, previous, page#) only in PLP? Or do they become something that the WordPress search function should be able to find? This is where I don’t follow the logic.

WordPress search, at its basic core, will only ever look for posts and pages, but how does it even know PLP pagination exist and that PLP is creating its own links?

For example here’s a link to the post, which is what I always get in search results…
https://test2.fotko.org/?p=10

But I need the link to be the paginated link, to the exact page the search matches, like this…
https://test2.fotko.org/?p=10&page=4

So how would the WordPress search function get that on its own, without talking to PLP? Or without knowing where PLP makes its page breaks? Since nothing is written by the user on the post to break the page, and its all handled by PLP’s options, how would the search know this?

This for me is where it seems to at least be related to PLP, in some way, and not solely a WordPress search issue. Does that make sense?

I’m continuing my search but wanted to post a little about what I was trying to hopefully get the ball rolling or find out what I’m missing.

To accommodate what you describe:

Instead what I need is a solution to the search results itself in what links are shown and that it links to the subpage of a post, not the post itself. It makes finding a solution tricky, or at least it has been so far.

… I think we’d need to find some way for PLP — which is essentially a glorified hook for the wp_link_pages function — to dialogue with the WP core search function. Essentially, the former would tell the latter (a) here’s how I’m paginating content and (b) preserve this permalink structure in search returns IF vertical Ajax isn’t activated.

This should take users from the search return page to the precise page on which a term (or array of terms) appears.

Am I missing anything?

That sounds right to me! You nailed it on the head.

Ok, great, Mileages.

I’ll scope this out and work it into our development cycle. If it’s possible, we’ll work it into a future release of PLP. If it isn’t possible, I’ll post the reason here.

Thanks for the great idea.

Sweet! I’ll be looking forward to the upgrade and hoping for a quick dev cycle. Hehe.

Thanks and good luck!

Thanks!

[resolved for now]