Search long

The min length character count is already set to a single character in the current versions of Connections (10.4.39). I see you have version 10.4.9 installed on your site. That is over a year old and may need to update.

That said, this still may not change your results as some web hosts have the WP database set up to ignore search terms that are only 2 or 3 characters in length.

I hope this helps; please let me know.

Hi, what is the price of the update? i need to see it to my client, because that could be the problem, because is impossible in a WP database set to ignore searchs with 2 or 3 characters…

I wait your answer, and where can i buy the update.

Regards.

RE: impossible in a WP database set to ignore searchs with 2 or 3 characters

This is possible and likely as the default for MySQL (one of the primary databases used for WP) is 2 characters for FULLTEXT matches. Connecctions switches to LIKE matches or short words such as 2–3 characters.

• https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/fulltext-fine-tuning.html#fulltext-word-length

RE: what is the price of the update?

There is no fee. Navigate to the WordPress plugins admin page, scroll to the Connections Business Directory plugin row, and click the update now link.

I hope this helps; please let me know.

Hi, i’m a little afraid to update, because i have change files to show like you see now… so that, do you know the line where you limit the search to 4 or more characters? i try to search it but i don’t find.

Regards.

The limit in 10.4.9 is already set to three characters.

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/10.4.9/includes/Request/Search.php#L43

As mentioned, in current versions of Connections the minimum was set to one.

To make the exact change, you need to edit the
../wp-content/plugins/includes/Request/Search.php file.

Edit line 43. Change the 3 to a 1.

Edit the
../wp-content/plugins/includes/class.retrieve.php file.

Edit line 2938.

Change it from:

if ( strlen( $term ) >= 2 && strlen( $term ) <= 3 ) {

to:

if ( strlen( $term ) >= 1 && strlen( $term ) <= 3 ) {

I do not think this will make a difference in your results if the WP database minimum character length is set to 4. One setting change you can try… navigate to the Connections Settings admin page and click the Search tab. Disable the FULLTEXT option and save the change. This will allow Connections to only use a basic string match, and results should return when a match is found from the beginning of the string instead of relevancy based (already the default for short word searches). For example, lop should return Lopez since it starts with lop.

I hope this helps!

ps. If the only edit you made to Connections was to display the fallecido.png image. I suspect you made the change only to the Circled template. If that is the case, you should be able to update Connections without issue.

You can use the Download Plugin plugin to download the version of Connections you have installed:

• https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/download-plugin/

Update Connections and if there is an issue, you can reinstall Connections from the version you downloaded.

Thanks! you are the best!

Regards.

No problem; happy to help! Which solution helped?