burlyqlady

Hi again! I don’t know why I didn’t get your reply in my inbox ?? I just now saw it so sorry for the delay in responding!

Yes, I definitely have access to the template and can edit it. I’d love to try your “hack” to get this to work ??

This is strange, why would we have to insert the rss feed link twice? once in the settings and a second time in the shortcode?

Awesome – do I need to re-add the custom code you gave me from before? Or does it not affect that file?

Neat! What kind of performance improvements?

By the way, I’m glad you said that as it’s put my mind at ease. I don’t utilize caching because I need the results rebuilt every time the posts load. Re: the server hardware, what’s the best settings I need at a minimum to have this plugin working at maximum efficiency?

I look forward to the update!!

No, not at all (at least I hope not!). It’s just that often I’ll see that the only matches are new posts I’ve just added (and the matches aren’t very close) so I’m often left wondering if it really sorted through all the 5,100 posts I have! ?? Is it built for large sites? Thanks for your quick reply.

Hey again! Since my site has grown (I have over 5,000 posts now and it’s still growing) could it be that the plugin searches only the last 100 posts or so for matches? Does the search time out at any point or does it really search through the entire database of >5,000 posts?

Just wondering how it works. ?? Thanks for any reply!!

Sigh.. that’s bad news for me ?? It’s a really great plugin, I’m sad I will have to look elsewhere then. Thanks for your help. If there is ever a work around, do let me know.

I just tried to switch themes (to twenty fourteen) and when I do a search, I get more results using that theme than when I do the same search with the one I’m using.

I did find this in my theme.php file that seems to reference the search:

}
if (!function_exists('it_archive_title')) {
	#html display of archive title
	function it_archive_title() {
		$out = '';
		if(!is_archive() && !is_search()) return false;
		#determine title
		if(is_archive()) {
			$post = $posts[0]; # Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works.
			if (is_category()) {
				$out = single_cat_title('', false);
			} elseif( is_tag() ) {
				$out = __("Posts Tagged ‘", IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . single_tag_title('', false) . "’";
			} elseif (is_day()) {
				$out = __("Archive for ", IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . get_the_date('F jS, Y');
			} elseif (is_month()) {
				$out = __("Archive for ", IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . get_the_date('F, Y');
			} elseif (is_year()) {
				$out = __("Archive for ", IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . get_the_date('Y');
			} elseif (is_author()) {
				$author = get_query_var('author_name') ? get_user_by('slug', get_query_var('author_name')) : get_userdata(get_query_var('author'));
				$out = __("All posts by ", IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . $author->display_name;
			} elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) {
				$out = __("Blog Archives", IT_TEXTDOMAIN);
			}
		}
		if(is_search()) {
	<strong>		$out = __('Search results for ' , IT_TEXTDOMAIN) . '"' . get_search_query() . '"';
		}
		$out = '<h1 class="main-title archive-title">' . $out . '</h1>';
		return $out;
	}</strong>

also this is the archives page:

<?php get_header(); # show header ?>

<?php
#get the current category archive
$catid = get_query_var('cat');
$args = array('meta_key' => '_category_frontpage', 'meta_value' => $catid, 'post_type' => 'page');
<strong>$itpage = new WP_Query( $args );</strong>
if ($itpage->have_posts()) : while ($itpage->have_posts()) : $itpage->the_post();

	the_content();

endwhile;
else:

	#loop through builder panels from theme options
	$builders = it_get_setting('archive_builder');
	if(!empty($builders) && count($builders) > 2) {
		foreach($builders as $builder) {
			it_shortcode($builder);
		}
	} else {
		echo do_shortcode('[grid title="Blog" icon="magazine"]');
	} 

endif;
?>

<?php get_footer(); # show footer ?>

Does this tell you anything? I have contacted the theme’s author to get some feedback as well.

I forgot to include this extra info:

It works perfectly in the admin panel.

The index has been built, here’s what it looks like:
Documents in the index: 6313
Terms in the index: 474454

Limit search is not checked.
Snippets is not on, search exclusions aren’t set either.
I don’t have search hit highlighting set up.
Nothing else is checked and custom fields to index is set to all.

Okay, thanks ??

Ah great, thanks! Actually I was hoping it considered every single published post regardless of conditions (whether its old/new etc). Just making sure!

I’m wondering if there’s a way to give weight to specific tags? ??

Hey again! Hope it’s okay I’m replying to this thread instead of starting a new one.

I’m curious as to how the matching system works.. Does it really search every single post (I have over 4,000) for matching tags??

That’s perfect! Thank you ?? I’ll write you a lovely review for all the great help you’ve given me.

Awesome, those numbers do look more accurate to me, I have noticed now that it doesn’t sort them by highest percentage anymore. Is that a quick fix?

Also, I would like your paypal email address, you’ve been so helpful and I’d like to tip you. ??

Okay, I’ve had a few days to work with this, and I think I need the matching “algorithm” to be more accurate for my site’s needs.

Is there any way to add something to the plugin to consider all of the tags when finding a matching post?

As it is, I’m finding Post A with tags X, Y, Z to be a 100% match with
Post B that has tags X, Y, Z, Q – but they are not a 100% match because there is also a Q there.

Do you have any suggestions?