{"id":760,"date":"2025-03-24T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/settings-overview-for-advanced-search\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:23:57","slug":"settings-overview-for-advanced-search","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/advanced-search\/settings-overview-for-advanced-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Settings Overview for Advanced Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t This is the settings overview for <strong>Settings &gt; Advanced Search (tab). <br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/p>\n<section class=\"alert alert-warning\">\n\t You need to have the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/downloads\/advanced-search-add-on\/\">Advanced Search<\/a> extension installed and activated to access these settings.<\/section>\n<h2>Autocompleter Settings<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Enable search autocompleter &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>This option enables or disables the autocompleter for search.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Show search suggestions with (<a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-features\/hidden-advanced-settings\/\">A<\/a>) &#8211; <\/strong>You may choose to show auto complete suggestions either from <strong>Listings only,<\/strong> or <strong>Categories only,<\/strong> or both <strong>Listings and Categories.<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Min chars needed to trigger autocomplete &#8211; <\/strong>The minimum number of characters that the user needs to type before auto complete is triggered. <strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Max results to be returned by autocomplete &#8211; <\/strong>The maximum number of results that auto complete will return.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Listings from child category?&nbsp;<strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-features\/hidden-advanced-settings\/\">A<\/a>)<\/strong> &#8211; <\/strong>If checked, auto complete suggestions will show listings from all child categories as well of a given parent category. if unchecked, child categories will not be searched for suggestions or results.&nbsp;<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Enable location filter? &#8211; <\/strong>If checked, the search results will be filtered by the current location. This option requires the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/downloads\/location-manager\/\">Location Manager<\/a> addon to be installed and activated.<strong> <\/strong>In the absence of Location Manager addon, the directory is limited to just one city, so location filter is not needed per se. <strong><br \/>\n\t<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the settings overview for Settings &gt; Advanced Search (tab). You need to have the Advanced Search extension installed and activated to access these settings. Autocompleter Settings Enable search autocompleter &#8211;&nbsp;This option enables or disables the autocompleter for search.&nbsp; Show search suggestions with (A) &#8211; You may choose to show auto complete suggestions either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[541,566,605],"article\/categories":[213,400],"class_list":["post-760","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_place_tags-geodirectory-addons","gd_place_tags-advanced-search","gd_place_tags-autocomplete-search-results","gd_placecategory-extensions-features","gd_placecategory-advanced-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}