2 issues getting Solr working and 3 questions about modification

  • Resolved emmagold

    (@emmagold)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    (1) Search terms

    We have just installed WPSOLR as the search engine on wolf. We’ve got to the stage of getting the installation working and search terms being returned. It works well for single word search but isn’t working for multiple words. Is there some documentation about the syntax that a user needs to use to search for AND, wildcard etc.? Is there something we need to do to get two word search working (for example, at the moment ‘Sales Director’ as a search term returns text about Director only and doesn’t take account of the word ‘Sale’).

    (2) Facets

    2 custom taxonomies (categories and skills) are showing in our index options. We’ve selected both of them and both in facets and results, but only one is showing (categories). Why isn’t ‘skills’ showing? Also, is it possible (and if so how) to have custom fields (such as location) showing in facets?

    (3) Comments

    Comments are excluded across the site. Is it possible to remove comments from the drop down option of search ranking (so something like relevance new, old)? If it is, is it possible to replace comments with something else in the ranking and if so how?

    (4) Author showing on search results

    Is it possible to remove this from the results?

    (5) Is it possible to make the search box bigger as it is quite small at the moment (so more like a Google search box that is intended to take longer strings or words)

    Thank you,

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  • Plugin Author WPSolr free

    (@wpsolr)

    1) Can you give me the urls of the queries you mentioned, so I can have a look at the results ?

    2) I could not find your search box to have a look on facets
    On my own test instance (WPSOLR 3.8), both custom taxonomies and custom fields are displayed as facets.

    3) 4) 5)
    We are working on a new version which address just that: you will be able to call WPSOLR api from your own theme templates. Probably in 4 weeks from now.

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    Thank you for the quick reply. It’s great to hear that you are working on 3,4 & 5.

    With regards to 1 & 2, the relevant search box is on the following url, which lists CV search on wolf. Take a look at results for this search

    https://wolftalent.com/search-cvs/?search=sales+director

    The first result is not the most relevant (and seems to only be looking at Director for example)

    You won’t be able view it without logging in, as the search is protected by membership/subscription. I’ve set you up with a test account. Could you email me at emma @ wolftalent.com and I’ll send you your username and password. Login and then go to search-cvs (either directly or bottom link after log-in)

    Plugin Author WPSolr free

    (@wpsolr)

    Can you send me a print screen link of your results ?

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    Yes, but not in the public domain as the results are confidential. Is there an email address I can send it to?

    Plugin Author WPSolr free

    (@wpsolr)

    You can use the support chat box on wpsolr.com

    Plugin Author WPSolr free

    (@wpsolr)

    I got your print screen.

    I can see that in the search “sales+director”, you get results with either “sales” or “director” or both (e.g. “Director of toner Sales”) highlighted.

    What is wrong ?

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    Maybe it’s the syntax but we want a way of people searching only “Sales Director” (words next to each other) as well as “sales” or “director” or both. At the moment the returns are not what you would want for “Sales Director” if you wanted entries with that job title in the text (the first return is heavily weighted by word ‘Director’ for example). In terms of relevance, there are many more entries in the index with a higher density of both words together (and apart). Maybe we haven’t understood how the search works – is there a guide to the syntax (for example, what needs to be typed in to treat “Sales Director” as a single string)? I hope this makes sense.

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    I’ve come across another issue (as well as the issue with faceted search not showing 1 of the custom taxonomies even though it’s an index option and the odd search results). I occasionally get this error message when searching (it’s happened twice and each time is on a second search):

    Solr HTTP error: HTTP request failed, error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    A quick update on the above – the faceted search is working correctly – it is because my data isn’t very well populated for one of the facets. I experimented with a more searching and it is working. I think the search results are also searching correctly but the issue is perhaps with the filter on the left as it is ranking the results by newest rather than by relevance of the search. Can this filter be removed?

    Plugin Author WPSolr free

    (@wpsolr)

    Can you split this ticket in several tickets, one by subject ?

    We’ve reached a point where one cannot follow the different issues/requirements embedded in this thread.

    Thread Starter emmagold

    (@emmagold)

    ok, I’m closing the ticket and will start new ones.

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