Strange Daily Popular Search Results

  • Resolved essmeier

    (@essmeier)


    10 years ago

    I have version 1.3.6 installed on a Website that sells phonograph records. Most searches are for the name of an artist or the name of an album. But for the past two weeks, I’ve had this string show up, multiple times a day, in the Daily Popular Search results:

    lesley gore/ / 2/privacy policy/legal/contact us/ / 2/privacy policy/contact us/privacy po

    Sometimes it’s there 20 or 30 times. Don’t know where it’s coming from, don’t know how it’s ending up in Daily Popular Searches and I don’t know how to either get rid of it or prevent it from showing up again.

    You can see it here: https://www.rarerecords.net/?s=&submit=Search

    As I type this, it’s only there once, but that’s because I reset the Daily Popular Searches an hour ago.

    Suggestions?

    Charlie

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-search/

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Hi, I’ve had the same problem in the past where I thought rogue entries which unfortunately turned out to be people searching these terms.

    My suggestion is for the time-being to disable the search maps and probably even use the Seamless integration option.

    If you’ve been able to find the exact terms, you can enter them in the “Filter these words” option. I’ve not tested it with such long terms, but it’s worth giving it a shot.

    Thread Starter essmeier

    (@essmeier)

    Adding the string to the filter list doesn’t work.

    While I could disable the heatmap, I’d like to keep the popular searches heatmap, but not the daily popular searches portion of the heatmap. I must be able to disable that somewhere in the better-search.php file.

    What do I need to comment out?

    Charlie

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Yes. You’ll need to edit: https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/better-search/trunk/better-search.php#L135

    Alternatively, you can use the WordPress widget to add it to your sidebar.

    Thread Starter essmeier

    (@essmeier)

    I had to start with that line and edit out the next six to get it to work:

    //		echo '<div class="heatmap_daily">';
//		echo '<h4>';
//	echo strip_tags( $bsearch_settings['title_daily'] );
//		echo '</h4>';
//		echo get_bsearch_heatmap( 'daily=1' );	// Overall heatmap
//		echo '</div>';	// Close class="heatmap_daily"

    That did it; it’s working now, with Daily Popular Searches not displayed but Popular Searches still present.

    Thanks for the help.

    Charlie

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Your welcome. In the near future, Better Search will be a lot more pluggable and extendable through filters, something that is massively missing now.

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