Cluttered searches unless you use paid version, cant try out, getting rid of it

  • The bottom line is your search will be littered with all your images if they have any keyword in their title. I have a site with lots of pages and pdfs, People search for pages with content or documents with content. Instead, they get search’s filled with all the images mixed in with useful content on my site.

    They only give you the option to include all media files or none; that’s it! If I don’t want all of my images to show up in a search, I have to exclude ALL MEDIA, including PDFS, word files, Powerpoint, etc. Only if you pay can you exclude image files. I was trying out first before I purchased, but if they give me no way to truly evaluate, I will have to move on. I will gladly pay for the hard work that goes into creating software, but this seems coercive and manipulative, so I’m left with little trust and will not give them my credit card.

    They should have a better model to try and then purchase.

    So, if you have no images in your media library or they are all titled with just numbers, skip this plugin and use something else.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by rwalton.
    • This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by rwalton.
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  • Plugin Author Vinod Dalvi

    (@vinod-dalvi)

    Thank you for your feedback but whatever you have written is not true at all.

    The truth is that you can include or exclude whole media from the search.

    Also, you can just exclude or include images in the search.

    Both of the above functionalities are available in the free version of the plugin.

    If you don’t know how to do that then I am always here to guide you If you just create a topic in the plugin support forum.

    Thread Starter rwalton

    (@rwalton)

    What I have written is true unless you have hidden something somewhere. Take a look at the screenshot:
    https://app.snippyly.com/discuss/?q=mJVTYXoZ1EAC7NUv90xe&EDIT=tPAoEAywZsuTaOfl4h5Q

    It clearly gives 2 main options:

    1. Search all media
    or
    2. Search only selected media – if you click this toggle, it gives you the option to find a single document, like a single PDF. I have thousands. I would have to go one by one to select each one which would take me a week, and every time I added a new PDF, I would have to come back here and find and select it.
    But right Below that are options to select ALL of one kind of media –

    The SCREENSHOT shows exactly what I said before. You cant separate images from PDFs unless you upgrade “Upgrade to pro plus to Access.” It shows that if you were to upgrade, there are toggle buttons for each kind of media, but it is grayed out with the warning above.

    I simply wanted to have all pages, posts, PDFs, and documents, not anything else like images or audio. I cannot do that unless I upgrade, as the screenshot shows.
    So every kind of file type gets cluttered in searches.

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by rwalton.
    • This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by rwalton.
    Plugin Author Vinod Dalvi

    (@vinod-dalvi)

    You can exclude media from search as displayed below and this functionality is available free of cost.

    View post on imgur.com

    Please see the below screenshot that displays how you can search only images and you can select all by pressing CTRL + A so you don’t need to select them one by one.

    View post on imgur.com

    Yes, the plugin also has some functionalities which are available in the premium version and this is how I get paid for all of this hard work but all the basic functionalities are free.

    Do you want all functionality free of cost without paying for my hard work?

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