[Plugin: Dave’s WordPress Live Search] Doesn’t Work on my Site

Interesting…this plugin is using WordPress’s own search functionality, so it should pick up your table prefix.

I’ll give it a try with a table prefix and let you know if that’s it.

Thanks for the feedback!

I see what’s going on!

For some reason, the plugin is building the AJAX URL incorrectly. I’ll get that fixed up some time this week and will let you know when there’s a new dev version you can try.

Thanks!
Dave

Could you try the latest development version (https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/daves-wordpress-live-search.zip)?

I made some changes to how the Javascript and CSS are handled last week, and those changes should completely fix the problem you’re having.

If this works for you, I’ll clean up the appearance of the admin screen a little and release this as version 1.2.

Wow, cool! It works nicely. Thanks for fixing it and thanks for the plugin. When I redesigned my site, live search was one of the things on the short list that I wanted on my site.

Hey Dave, it’s not working on my site either. Could you take a look and see maybe why that is? Thanks!

https://www.tunelab.com

Gladly!

This is turning into quite a learning experience, because I tested the @#($ out of this plugin on my blogs, which are running WordPress 2.6 and 2.7.1. Your blog is running WordPress 2.5, and it looks like they didn’t add the WP_PLUGIN_URL constant until 2.6.

Assume nothing, test everything. ??

This isn’t the first time I’ve bumped up against an issue like this. I’m going to have to set up a couple testing sites with older versions of WordPress to test against.

I should have a new dev version up this afternoon, and I’ll let you know when you can try it.

Thanks,
Dave

Thanks for the response Dave, I’ll try and check in from time to time!

I tested the latest dev version on WordPress 2.5.1 and it looks to be working now. Would you mind giving it a shot?

https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/daves-wordpress-live-search.zip

Your site looks really cool. I’ll have to give it a closer look when I have some time.

Hi Dave

I have the search box on my website, and it looks fantastic using Firefox! However when using IE the box width is longer than the widgetted sidebar. Is there a way of making the search box length shorter? Around 150px?

Great plugin btw!

https://www.spiritualitybookshop.com

Hi Dave. Just noticed the plugin does not appear to work with ‘WP Super Cache’ if set to NOT cache users when loggeg in (e.g. if running a forum). I have not found a fix but this did cause me a bit of a headache to troubleshoot. Maybe worth investigating for a future release…
Great plugin btw!

Tony,

It works fine on my site with that setting turned on, both when I’m logged in and when I’m not logged in.

It’s possible some other plugin is interfering, though.

Could you post a link to your site, or email it to dave at csixty4.com so I can take a look? Maybe I can dig into the Javascript a little and see if something is preventing it from working right.

Thanks,
Dave