Bryce Corkins

Thanks again for your support!

I’m afraid I’m not 100% clear on your question, but maybe I can explain better how queries are generated.

The way the search algorithm deals with multiple parameters is that it runs an “OR” operation on each taxonomy or meta field given. You can see this on our demo site at https://ultimatesearch.mindsharelabs.com. So, for example, a search for (Category: Change Log) (Category: Parent Category I) will return all posts from both categories. When multiple taxonomies are used, the search runs an “AND” operation… for example, (Category: Change Log) (Category: Parent Category I) (Tag: Cool) will return all posts from both categories, but only those which have the “Cool” tag.

So, if you’re allowing a user to filter by taxonomy, but the user enters plain text as well, for example (Category: Change Log) (Category: Parent Category I) (Text: Lorem), the search results will return all posts from both Change Log and Parent Category I, but only those posts which have the text “Lorem”. So it sounds like it’s doing what you’re asking… only returning results from the taxonomies specified. However, if a user were just to enter “Lorem”, then it would return all results from all taxonomies.

It’s in our roadmap for the near future to allow global taxonomy limits, set within the wpus preferences. For example, you could limit all search results to the “Change Log” category, even when a user doesn’t specify a category and only enters a text search. Or, you could exclude certain taxonomies, post types, or meta field from the results, globally.

In the meantime, if this is what you’re looking to accomplish, you could easily modify the results template to do a simple check and exclude results of a certain category or post type. For more info on creating a custom results template, see the FAQ at https://mindsharelabs.com.

Hope this clears things up. Please let me know if you need any more help.

Ok, cool. Let me know what you find out. I’d be happy to take a closer look if you get stuck.

Have you tried disabling the widget, and then setting the /search/ page to contain:

[wp-ultimate-search-results]
[wp-ultimate-search-bar]

If that doesn’t work, then maybe there’s something wonky going on with your site in particular, and I can then investigate that further.

This looks like partly a bug a partly and a configuration issue..

Bug: Since your widget is loading on the /search/ page, there are two instances of the search bar on the same page. This breaks either one or both of the search bars.. since the data that’s getting passed around via ajax gets confused about where it’s going. I’m going to try and release a v1.0.4 as soon as I can with a fix that will disable the widget on the /search/ page.

Configuration: The widget redirects to the search results page set in WPUS options. On some servers, this is /search/ and on some servers this is /search (no trailing slash). Go ahead and change the search results page in the settings to /search/, and it should redirect properly.

Then, for now, you can just add the [wp-ultimate-search-results] shortcode to the /search/ page until I can update the plugin to automatically unload the widget on that page.

Best

The moderators at the repository have yet to review our updates to the plugin, so we’re going to be hosting it on our website until they find time to do so. You can read more about the situation and download a zip file from here:

https://mindsharelabs.com/blog/wp-ultimate-search-on-the-plugins-repository/

The moderators at the repository have yet to review our updates to the plugin, so we’re going to be hosting it on our website until they find time to do so. You can read more about the situation and download a zip file from here:

https://mindsharelabs.com/blog/wp-ultimate-search-on-the-plugins-repository/

Hi rwkill, thanks for being one of our first purchasers. I’m sorry you’re having problems… we’ve identified a number of small bugs since releasing 1.0 and are working to fix them as quickly as possible.

I’m unable to reproduce the problem you’re describing on any of our test sites. Could you first try to click “Reset to defaults” and then try to save your custom taxonomy settings again?

If this doesn’t work, and you’d like me to diagnose this issue personally, please create an additional admin account on your site and then email me directly at [email protected] with the login and password. I will see what’s going on and fix the issue for you.

Best

Thought I’d give you a heads up… the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

Thought I’d give you a heads up… the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

Thought I’d give you a heads up… the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

Yes.. at long last, and after much labor, the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

The new version that was just released supports this. After you upgrade, the plugin will create a page at /search/ with the proper code to output the search results. You can then add the search bar anywhere on your site and it will take visitors to the results page after they submit the query.

Thought I’d give you a heads up… the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

Well it happened at last… the new version has just been released. You should see the update appear in your dashboard soon. If you have any questions or problems, you can contact us here, or through our support site at https://mindsharelabs.com/

Thanks for your interest and support!

With the new version that’s just been released, you can customize the results template by copying the file wp-ultimate-search/views/wpus-results-template.php to your theme directory. Any changes you make to that file will be preserved across future updates to the plugin.