Suggestion: Paginate and Search in Admin

Hi @ahau!

Thanks for your suggestion!
Wow, 86 directories is A LOT! I haven’t even tested it with that much! Is it performing allright?

When I am going to be implementing pagination for the frontend (not sure when), I will check the backend too.

When you say search: do you mean a full (over all directory) search in the backend?

Kind regards,

Jeroen Peters

It is performing superbly!

The smallest one only has 6 names, the largest one has 1180 names with the average around 400 – 600 names and the name directory name table has a total of 19,235 records. I still have a list of over 30,000 names (no duplicates in that either) that I have not added yet as I need to get my site live (transfering data) and once that is done I will be breaking those 30,000 names into smaller directories – and probably having duplicates. Good thing I bookmarked the post about how to remove the no dups so when I installed the upgrade I then hacked the code again ??

Of course the normal wp search would not search them but trial and error I found the relavansi search plugin that will search short codes so a happy camper! Sadly if pagination is on the front end it will not search the other pages just the first one. I have written a couple of plugins for other data I had that would not fit into any plugin and found that limitation so I removed my pagination on the front end so I could get full search with the search plugin. I did look for another plugin that would do that but no luck, so may I suggest if you do put pagination in the front end that it is an option as I do not want it! *LOL*

When I say search, I mean just to be able to search by the directory name – similar to how on the posts page you can search by post name. Would make life alot easier when someone with say 86 directories is trying to find one from a very long list!

Thank you for your time and work – it is very much appreciated ??

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by ahau.

Hey @ahau, I am very pleased to hear that it’s working so smoothly!

When I implement pagination it will always be an option and surely it will be off by default (because it has no pagination now, after an upgrade I do not want the users to experience different behaviour of the plugin, that would be annoying).

You are the first one (that I hear of) who would like to import duplicate names, so for now I am not implementing it as an option.

Searching by the directory name might be easy implement with javascript filtering, I’m going to think about that.

good point about having pagination as an option as you are right, it would change alot of websites.

As long as I can still hack the code after each upgrade, no worries – I didn’t think many would want duplicates, but as you know, for genealogy there will always be duplicates.

I just want to know about front-end as well as back-end pagination. Currently I didn’t see any kind of pagination.
Plugin functionality is very awesome and I would like to suggest if have pagination and gender option for human name because most of the plugins and libraries have gender option.

Please have a look for improving features. Also I am willing to translate into Urdu. https://codecanyon.net/item/baby-names-database-for-wordpress/2834394

Hi @mshafiqtahir,

thank you for your suggestions. I will look into the pagination thing but not into gender. This is not a babyname list, it’s meant to be usefull for all kinds of purposes and therefore it’s pretty general ??
That is by design and I intend to keep it that way.

I see that the babyname plugin is only 22 dollars, that is very cheap. If you are looking for something very specific, I would suggest to buy that one.
If you don’t like that plugin for a reason, I can create a baby-version of this NameDirectory plugin especially for you, if you pay me.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Peters

Hi @jeroenpeters1986,

Thanks. Actually I didn’t need for a baby specific plugin. I am a WordPress developer and I suggest my clients to select themes and plugins which I recommend. During my experience I have observed that most of people wants to separate their naming list by gender.

Hi @mshafiqtahir,

thank you for your clarification. However, this does not change my point of view. My plugin is supposed to be generic. The author of this topic (ahua) is using it for Genealogy terms, my wife is using it for (generic) pet names, other people use it for games, home-construction glossaries and the list continues. Creating a gender-option would be too specific, I’m sorry.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Peters