Thanks for your reply.
However, we are not able to see thumbnails on your site now. Have you deleted the thumbnails or made any other change to the thumbnails part from SearchIQ settings.
https://monosnap.com/file/0oQwNMGTjcxZRG1L6ocpr4UEU3IPvr
Yes, it might be that I did something wrong, so I indexed the posts again.
As a last resort: is it possible to use already generated thumbnails instead of the featured image? I already have thumbs of 144x190px
— Yes, we can use already generated thumbnails instead of Featured image if the thumbnail URL is stored in a custom field.
I don’t see any custom fields which may contain the tumbnail’s url (but I’m a novice on this subject). But I did a test with an unexpected result: I indexed the posts again with a custom field selected from which I’m sure it has no pictures. I expected that all pics in the search result would have gone, but I still saw the featured images pop up. Is this normal?
To solve the thumbnail problem once and forever: do you think it make sense to delete my search engine and start all over again?
— Yes, you can change the size of pics using custom CSS. You can copy the rule from SearchIQ CSS and use the same rule with your changes in the “Custom CSS” section under the “Options” tab in SearchIQ wp-admin settings. SearchIQ will automatically append this to the custom CSS and that’ll override the existing SearchIQ rule.
https://monosnap.com/file/HstucSQovEkjApJDHCKjiNYg9hNBQV
That can not work: it will change the output from both the desktop and the mobile site – I only want to change the mobile one.
As my mobile site is on a seperate subdomain, I thought to be smart to use a custom css plugin on that domain. Did not work: the original css uses !important everywhere, and to overwrite it, my custom css needs to load later as the original one (and the searchiq codes are literally the last ones to load on my site – which is a good thing of course)
If I may give some suggestions for a future update of the plugin:
– make an input field where the user can input his mobile domain (if any) and use this input.
– check if these !important tags are really that important
Right now, my mobile plugin just uses the api and uses the search engine which knows only the desktop version. I can change settings in the mobile plugin, but they will have absolutely no effect. So I will see desktop things (like css) on my mobile site.
As a result, many things don’t work (for instance the ‘mobile function’ – even if enabled on the desktop plugin – will not show any results (if it worked I would not need custom css lol)
In autocomplete, the right search results pop up, but they have the desktop links. If you click, my site will automatically redirect them to the mobile url’s but it is so sloooooooow! (6+ seconds – pls try by yourself). Don’t understand how this can be – but it looks that at the same time, the browser contacts searchiq through the api for the stats; maybe this causes some conflict as the search engine don’t know the mobile url’s? Just guessing, on the desktop it works fine.
One thing works as a charm: the normal search page. If you input a search term + enter, it will show the results with the normal mobile links which load fast.
I realize that all of this can probably be solved with a second search engine, which in my case would require a pro subscription, which is a bit costly for a hobby project without income from publicity.
But I also feel that a search engine should support mobile domains. After all, the content on both domains is identical.
Just some food for thought. Searchiq is the best on desktop browsers, on mobile there is room for improvement – especially for sites on mobile domains.
Best regards,
Alex
