[Plugin: Dave’s WordPress Live Search] Doesn’t work with Web Optimizer

No worries. Please update this when you get around to it and I’ll let you know how it goes.

FYI – I don’t think it’s the ajax request. I watched it with FireBug and the response comes back but seems to be ignored by the client-side receiver. The busy animation in the search box continues until you delete all the characters from the search field. It looks like a CSS / JQuery issue. Much more fun.

The same thing happens regardless of whether it is the standard theme, iPhone (wptouch) or mobile (WordPress Mobile Edition). I am also working through the issue with the Web Optimizer people at http://code.google.com/p/web-optimizator/issues/detail?id=178&q=wordpress&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Plugin

I have left the plugin activated at http://www.cadbloke.com for your viewing pleasure.

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FYI – it was a bug in Web Optimizer, adding a logo-link to the ajax response. They have a fix coming in the next version.

Also FYI – they said this: “P.S. Testing this situation bring down test web server due to large amount of requests from this plugin. I think it’s not a good choice for a high loaded websites (requests from typed text should be sent in 100 ms each, not with every typed letter).”

I thought you should know. I don’t see this as an issue for my site (I’ll never be that popular) but you may want to consider some type of request-throttling for the popular crowd.

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