[Plugin: MiniMU] search form and sub-categories not working?

Resolved WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

12 years, 1 month ago

I think I’ve found a couple of issues more. I splitted my main web in two categories like this;

MainWeb .com
2ndDomain .com ->(category 1)
3rdDomain .com ->(category 2)

and I use the same theme for all domains. Whenever I try to do a search with the searchform from 2nd or 3rd domain, it just doesn’t work. It reports missing page. However, the search form works ok whenever you do a search from MainWeb .com.

The second issue I’ve found is that sub-categories are working weird. I sub-divided each of above categories in sub-categories like this;

2ndDomain .com ->(category 1)
– sub-category 1
– sub-category 2
3rdDomain .com ->(category 2)
– sub-category 1
– sub-category 2

Whenever you browse a sub-category;

2ndDomain .com/category/category 1/sub-category 1

wordpress navigation links you to the parent web, MainWeb .com in this example;

MainWeb .com/category/category 1/sub-category 1/page/2

and it should link to;

2ndDomain .com/category/category 1/sub-category 1/page/2

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/minimu/

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Plugin Author shelkie
(@shelkie)

12 years, 1 month ago

I can’t seem to replicate the issue you’ve reported with the search function. It works fine with our test site, which is configured in a similar fashion to yours. Try it if you’d like: http://minimu.smashlab.com

When you say that “wordpress navigation links you to the parent web”, I’m not sure which links you are talking about. Could you be more specific?

Thread Starter WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

12 years, 1 month ago

Ok, let’s say that parent web is http://minimu.smashlab.com and you create two categories for two new domains, blog1, blog2.

http://minimu.smashlab.com
-> category blog1 -> http://blog1.com
-> category blog2 -> http://blog2.com

On my installation the equivalent to this;

http://minimu.smashlab.com/category/miscellaneous-category/

…works ok. Tags like this;

http://minimu.smashlab.com/tag/misc-1/

…are working ok.

If I create a sub category for http://minimu.smashlab.com “miscellaneous-category”;

http://minimu.smashlab.com/category/miscellaneous-category/miscellaneous-category-for-smashlab

…works ok.

However, If I create a sub-category for blog1 or blog2;

http://blog1.com/category/blog1/miscellaneous-category-for-blog1

or

http://blog2.com/category/blog2/miscellaneous-category-for-blog2

…then the web starts to do weird things. The template is not working ok and the wp navigation “older posts – newer post” points to http://minimu.smashlab.com instead of pointing to http://blog1.com or http://blog2.com

Finally, the searcher works ok on http://minimu.smashlab.com but whenever you try a search on http://blog1.com or http://blog2.com, you get a “Nothing Found”. This was using Twenty Eleven theme.

Plugin Author shelkie
(@shelkie)

12 years, 1 month ago

Strange – believe I’ve replicated your configuration as closely as possible, but I’m not spotting the issues you are.
http://blog2.smashlab.com/category/blog2/blog-2-stuff-sub-category/

Thread Starter WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

12 years, 1 month ago

Hi;

Perhaps the problem is that you are working with subdomains;

http://minimu.smashlab.com
http://blog1.smashlab.com
http://blog2.smashlab.com

And I’m working with 3 different full domains;

http://smashlab.com
http://2ndDomain.com
http://3rdDomain.com

Thread Starter WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

12 years, 1 month ago

Ok, another finding;

http://smashlab.com
http://2ndDomain.com
http://3rdDomain.com

This;

http://2ndDomain.com/category/2ndDomain/subcategory-for-2nddomain

…doesn’t work. But if I change 2ndDomain for 3rdDomain after /category/;

http://2ndDomain.com/category/3RDDOMAIN/subcategory-for-2nddomain

…it works like charms.

And I tried the same for 3rdDomain. This

http://3rdDomain.com/category/3rdDomain/subcategory-for-3rddomain

…doesn’t work. But this;

http://3ndDomain.com/category/2NDDOMAIN/subcategory-for-3nddomain

…works ok.

I didn’t sort the searcher problem out yet.

Plugin Author shelkie
(@shelkie)

12 years, 1 month ago

Very strange – almost sounds like it might be an issue with your .htaccess rewrite rules?
Thread Starter WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

12 years, 1 month ago
My htaccess are the default rules that WP generates whenever you do a fresh install;
```
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /parentweb/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /parentweb/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
```
Do you need to change anything so MiniMu works?

An update on the subcategories issue;

This;

http://2ndDomain.com/category/2ndDomain/subcategory-for-2nddomain

…still doesn’t work

But it works whenever you substitute “2ndDomain” or you just remove it. This works;

http://2ndDomain.com/category/subcategory-for-2nddomain

…and this works too;

http://2ndDomain.com/category/sdfsdfsdfsdf/subcategory-for-2nddomain

It is like if your plugin put subcategories at the same hierarchical level than categories. If this is the case, I don’t dislike it at all, it is a nice feature.
Thread Starter WpJoe
(@wpjoe)

11 years, 11 months ago

Well, I put my minimu installation online and the searcher came back to live! 🙂

For my sub-categories issue I used a work around. I don’t know if 0.6.4 updated was related to this.

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