How to design advanced search for dozens of products

This topic contains 10 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by  Alex Rollin 6 years, 10 months ago.

We have moved to a support ticketing system and our forums are now closed.

Open Support Ticket

Tagged: 

  • Author
    Posts
  • May 13, 2018 at 12:55 pm #430313

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    General question regarding advanced search “or” general search for “numerious” products.

    I am working on a project for “products” and the “categories” for the Custom Post Type will be approximately 40!

    I want to keep the products offering within the CPT.

    Having 40 Categories displaying in bread crumbs or above the listing will be hmm rather a bit much.

    Now, thinking about the “CPT”‘s Settings I could use a HTML section 40 times right? And include the products in Advanced search?

    I am not quite sure on how to do this in “the most effective” way for the subscriber or the user performing the search.

    Has anyone set up such a directory before?

    Kind regards,

    Happy Mothers Day to all you Mothers coming from Steve in the U.S.

    May 13, 2018 at 8:58 pm #430348

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Categories are great! What do you mean about the problem with the breadcrumbs?

    If you want to use a custom field, great!

    Categories are integrated into SEO, so, you really get a lot more mileage out of them than you do custom fields.

    May 13, 2018 at 9:04 pm #430349

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    Right. Thanks.. I am discovering that having html text areas, custom fields are not found in search.

    Primary CPT are Agent, Broker, Company, Finance

    Services for Agent are: type of insurance, auto, home, life, commercial, commercial loggers liability for example. If they are added as categories or sub-category they are useful in search otherwise using hte html, text area.. only. they are not.

    Bread Crumbs.. not a problem I will just limit the characters to limit the display of them otherwise there would need to be several hundred characters of characters allowed.

    Problem solved. 40 plus Categories it is.

    Is there a way to “know” which “label” is for a sub-category and all labels are labeled “Category” I could re-label the sub-category label to make it easier to distinguish.

    May 13, 2018 at 11:23 pm #430361

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Right, only title/description/category/tags are part of ‘search for’/

    RE: labels? Are you using the Ajax Chained option for choosing categories? That forces choice of parent category first.

    May 13, 2018 at 11:31 pm #430365

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    My concern is how the categories are displayed.

    I have surpassed over 60 categories of insurance “types” Why? Because users who search are looking for a certain kind of insurance (long story with 26 years experience in insurance)

    Thus, if an agency writes say 60 or more categories (that can be found by search) the categories are going to just take over the page.

    Is there a way to “hide” the categories from displaying on the listing and sidebar?

    I have respectively 5 above the listing and 6 on the side bar. What will it look like with 80.

    May 13, 2018 at 11:39 pm #430370

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    Ajax chained? No, never used that but will test it.

    “Lines of Insurance” is the parent.
    The children of types is going to be over 80. I do not know how this will help.
    If I get too technical in insurance “lingo” consumers will not understand it.

    For example, they may search for “homeowners, home, house, fire, hazard” as common terms. That is 5 tags for just one line of insurance and there are over 80… that alone equates to a possible 400. Not all type insurance have that many common names.. We could be averaging three per line of insurance thus that would be 240.

    Thank you for the suggestion.
    Kind regards,

    May 13, 2018 at 11:44 pm #430372

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Perhaps something could be done with CSS?

    Send over the URL in a private reply and we can give it a try.

    May 14, 2018 at 12:52 am #430375

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019
    This reply has been marked as private.
    May 14, 2018 at 2:17 am #430385

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    https://whowriteswhat.com/insurance_broker/california/amador-county/retail-broker/athena-insurance-and-financial-services/

    as an example

    May 14, 2018 at 2:53 am #430388

    Steve
    Full Member
    Post count: 1019

    Hello Alex.

    Found this .geodir_post_taxomomies {
    display: none;
    }
    and…for categories
    .geodir-company_info .geodir_more_info { display:none;}
    it worked and search still works! Sweet!

    Now, next, how to do the same thing on the sidebar widget details. Woop woop!

    May 14, 2018 at 9:26 am #430437

    Alex Rollin
    Moderator
    Post count: 27815

    Looks like you found a way to do it?

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 11 posts - 1 through 11 (of 11 total)

We have moved to a support ticketing system and our forums are now closed.

Open Support Ticket
20% Discount Offer
Hurry! Get your 20% discount before it expires. Get 20% Discount