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Yes, this /*Custom CSS*/ faux pas just got introduced. WTF. Please remove it from the plug-in.

After some vexation, I was finally able to get decent search results on my site by, essentially, reverting to WordPress search, which Ajax gives the option for. I have updated my initial review to be more balanced. Thank you for your replies.

After extensive work with the Ajax Pro plug-in, I now know that it is worse than default WordPress. If your site has extensive text, Ajax is worse than worthless.

Am using the Pro version. This review refers to using the primary faculties of the plug-in: the index table engine, and tuned prioritization by keyword logic and field (relevance options). Search results prioritization is poor, period.

The documentation is inadequate: poorly structured and badly written. The images are too small in many instances. For instance, “Additional search tags for this post” is an option for pages. But search for that phrase in the online help and there is no documentation on what it means or how it weighs into search. Likewise, negative keywords is not explained worth a damn. One can only imagine how it works. Priorities by rules is inscrutable because of poor documentation (which seems only to apply to highly categorized web sites).

Thanks for the help Weston. My WordPress contractor came up with the following to get rid of the forward and backward buttons and downsize the buttons.

.spoken-word-playback-controls button:nth-child(3), .spoken-word-playback-controls button:nth-child(4) {
display: none;
}

button, input[type=”button”], input[type=”reset”], input[type=”submit”] {
border-radius: 22px;
padding: 2px 6px;
margin-right: 10px;
}

.spoken-word {
margin: 0;
margin-bottom: 25px;
}

I apologize for my ignorance. I thought the buttons were already specified somewhere, but I don’t see where. I read code well enough to edit it is all. (I was a software developer decades ago, but in C.) Without a bit of guidance I’ll have to hire a contractor. Thanks for the help. Sorry to bother you.