21 thoughts on “Ajax WP Query Search Filter”

1. 

   Mike

   27 June, 2013 at 10:44 pm

   What perfect timing! I just typed in “wordpress ajax search filter” in Google & they showed your plugin posted 10 hours ago! Looking forward to checking it out & am glad to see there’s a good developer behind it. If I end up using it, I’ll be sure to donate 🙂

2. 

   Mike

   28 June, 2013 at 4:42 am

   Okay, I checked it out. Love the simplicity & good call on the results hook.

   It seems like it’s smart to put the search form & results in two different divs. Whenever I had a problem such as not being able to click on more pages, it seemed to be because of them being in the same div. Also, I think it’s just good usability to have the search box always show while the results show below it or to the side.

   There are only two things I can think of that I would really like in addition & that is:
   1) Ajax search bar suggestions &
   2) The ability to check a value when results are displayed & have the results filter without having to click search again.
   Let me know if you were thinking of potentially adding these.

   Great job though. Going to play around with it some more & test the limits 🙂

   1. 

      tck30

      28 June, 2013 at 3:26 pm

      Hi, thanks for your comment.
      Yes, the div for the result should not same as the form displayed div.

      I am not thinking of adding search bar suggestions for the moment, maybe I will add it in the future, but I can’t promise anything right now.

      As for the second suggestion, when I first create this plugin, there were no Search button in form. Whenever user make a changes in the search form input, the result will display instantly. I asked people about this feature, but most of them prefer having “Search” button in the form, so I dropped this feature eventually. likewise, I will not add this feature to the plugin for the moment,

      1. 

         Mike

         29 June, 2013 at 4:03 am

         Cool. Makes sense! To be more clear, I meant that the search is the only thing that wouldn’t automatically update. So, you could search, but then automatically filter with the static options like for example, behance.net does. I agree with you on the search though. Thanks 🙂

         1. 

            tck30

            29 June, 2013 at 12:13 pm

            I see what you meant. I don’t think I will add this to my plugin. Actually if you want to hold the filter input, you can simply use checkboxes instead. But it is not pretty as the example you gave me though.

            1. 

               Mike

               3 July, 2013 at 2:42 am

               Good point! Maybe I’ll create a custom dropdown with the checkboxes.

3. 

   Swetha

   28 June, 2013 at 10:53 am

   HI,

   This is a great search plugin. I want to use it to retrieve data from contact form db plugin and display in the website front end. How to achieve this? I am using contact form 7 for the forms.

   Another question is what is taxonomy as mentioned in your plugin. Where do we get this or define this?

   Thanks,
   Swetha

4. 

   tck30

   28 June, 2013 at 3:35 pm

   I am not quite sure how Contact From 7 store the data. If it is using wp_posts to store data, it probably achievable.

   For more info about taxonomy, you can read from this blog. Very good explanation.

5. 

   Suzanne Chiles

   28 June, 2013 at 9:11 pm

   This plugin looks like it’s going to work well for me. It’s been easy to create the query and place it on the page with the shortcode. I’m getting the results that I expect too. Fantastic!

   I want my queries to return just a list of hyperlinked topics, not the full post. Can you point me in the right direction control the results?

   Thanks!

   1. 

      tck30

      29 June, 2013 at 12:07 pm

      Yes, you can, just refer to the ajax_wpqsf_reoutput() at above. Add it in your function.php. For example:
      
add_filter('ajax_wpqsf_reoutput', 'customize_output', '', 2);
function customize_output($results , $args){
// The Query
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
ob_start(); $results ='';
// The Loop
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
$query->the_post();
echo '

   2. '.get_the_title().'

   ';
   }
   } else {
   echo 'no post found';
   }
   /* Restore original Post Data */
   wp_reset_postdata();

   $results = ob_get_clean();
return $results;
}