Nothing found notice is misleading

  • jph7007

    (@jph7007)


    9 years ago

    Hi there,

    The Nothing found notice seems to be misleading since the search does indeed generate result (after hitting the return key). In this case the word is only present in the wc product’s description field (not as tag, title etc). The question is if you can make words from the product’s description field visible as well?

    The Minimum number of characters required to run ajax search is good but it does not prevent an user to make a search with less characters. It would be great to prevent searches with 0-2 characters overall!

    Thanks, great plugin by the way.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/advanced-woo-search/

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  • Thread Starter jph7007

    (@jph7007)

    More problems…

    1. If you got wc-products tagged with a unique word that is only present as a tag and not as a word in the wc-description field only the tagged products will become visible in the drop-down (which is correct). However if you hit the return key (instead of clicking the tag-link) nothing will be found. Hitting the return key should also generate a total result without the need of clicking the link or links in the drop-down.

    2. If you got wc-products tagged with a certain word – a word that also happends to be present in the wc-description field of other products but not tagged with that word – hitting the return key will only find the products not “tagged”. On contrary when clicking on the tag-link – only products that are “tagged” will be found.

    Hope this will help solving the problem…

    Plugin Author ILLID

    (@mihail-barinov)

    Hi

    All this problems comes from one way – when you hit return key you are going to the search results page. But it is the default wp search page. And its has different search mechanizm. So search results on this page and in plugins dropdown are different.

    I think about one update – prevent access to search results page by clicking return key. So all searches will be only in dropdown.

    What you are thinking about this?

    Thread Starter jph7007

    (@jph7007)

    Hi,

    Thanks for your reply!

    I think if you just provide an on/off visibility option in the backend for the “Nothing Found” notice it would be better. I think the return-key should always work.

    Have not tested this (expensive) plugin but maybe they have a solution you can adopt…
    https://docs.woothemes.com/document/woocommerce-product-search/

    Another smaller problem: a language-problem which has to do with encoding – for example letters: ä ö å (???) are interpreted as letters a, o, a, which i wrong.

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