Bryce Corkins

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!

Hi there,

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!

You should be able to use both plugins on the same site without a problem. But you can’t “merge” two plugins to get a mixed set of search results from one interface. Just not possible.

What do you mean by “the plugin’s nature”? The nature of the plugin is to provide an alternate way to search for your content… so no, there’s really no way to integrate with a different search system.

The premium version will have all of these features. We’re in bugtesting phase right now and are trying to release it as soon as we can.

Yes, we’ve encountered this issue in the latest version of WordPress (WordPress now includes scripts by default that weren’t included in previous versions, and shipped with the plugin, so they’re causing conflicts). Unfortunately I’m on the road right now, but you can expect a patch to be pushed out within the next few weeks.

Looks like you’re probably having either a script or style conflict with something else on the page. Have you tried disabling other plugins to see if that fixes it?

There are also known conflicts with WP 3.5 that will be addressed in an upcoming release… though these shouldn’t prevent the plugin from working altogether. It looks to me like you have an element in your stylesheet which is overriding the width of the search bar.

I wouldn’t recommend modifying your template files if you’re not comfortable with PHP. The second example you posted is close.. but you need to have a closing semicolon after the first line.

We kind of got stalled out on the new version… I was on vacation for a few weeks, and I’m still busy catching up on client work, but it’s definitely in the pipes.

There won’t be options for those kinds of things, but you can always format the results using CSS (even with the current version)

No, it won’t do that.

Could you send me a link to your site so I can see exactly what the problem is?

It’s in the works.. the plugin is almost ready for release, but we’re still working out the kinks in the upgrade / authentication process, plus developing our support site, etc.

I’m hoping it’ll be out within the next couple of weeks.. maybe sooner. I’ll post an update here once it’s ready.

Thanks for pointing that out, and providing your solution… I just updated the plugin to 0.3 and incorporated your suggested code.

The “delay” property was actually meant to set a delay between document.ready and when the notification appears. I added a new option in the options pane to enable auto-hiding the notification pane, and to set a delay on when the auto-hide happens.

Cheers.

I can’t confirm that it works with older versions of IE… the styling of the box uses a lot of CSS3, which obviously wouldn’t work.. as to the functionality, it *should* work, but it hasn’t been tested. It’s on the roadmap to include a function to regress to a standard search box in older browsers, but this hasn’t been implemented yet.

I’ll try and post here once we reach the 1.0 release and we’ve had time to do that kind of stability testing.

The current version of the plugin doesn’t sort search results… they’re listed in whatever order they’re stored in the table.. so your newer posts may appear near the bottom of the list. In this initial release, we wanted to focus on being able to drill down into a small subset of posts… not navigating large sets of results. However, it’d be easy to add a sort feature, and I’ve put it on the to-do list for the next release.

Yes.. the current dev version actually supports using custom user defined template files, so you could add whatever you want to the results (post thumbnails, dates, tags, etc). In your version, you could add a <?php echo get_the_date($item->id) ?> to line 257 of wp-ultimate-search.php.. but we should be pushing the update out soon.

You can spread out the results yourself using the stylesheet.

Thanks! I’m glad you’re getting some use out of it!