Having trouble searching for shortcodes

  • Resolved glabideecomunicative

    (@glabideecomunicative)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello.
    I have a fairly big store, with 1700 products, translated in multiple languages with WPML.
    A good percentage of these products have Custom Tabs, added with this plugin: https://it.wordpress.org/plugins/yikes-inc-easy-custom-woocommerce-product-tabs/ which is supposed to be supported by Advanced Woo Search (please correct me if I’m wrong).
    These tabs contain WooCommerce product shortcodes, like [product sku="123456"]. If I trash a product however the shortcode that links to it remains, and an empty square shows up in my tab, so I’m trying to find a way to find all the shortcodes before deleting the product. So I tested your plugin a bit.

    I created a new product with a completely original SKU, then I ‘shortcoded’ it in another test product. If I search for the completely new shortcode using your plugin, I get 4+ pages of products that do not have it. Is there a setting I’m missing? Or is this a pro feature? Or am I simply doing something wrong? All I want to do is find the products that have a specific shortcode in their custom tabs

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  • Plugin Author ILLID

    (@mihail-barinov)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    Yes, you are right. Search plugin supports Custom Tabs.
    So, as I understand, you are searching for that unique sku and get 4+ pages of search results. Can you please write me this sku name?
    Also please try to go to plugin settings page and disable all search sources except sku and try to perform search one more time.

    Regards

    Thread Starter glabideecomunicative

    (@glabideecomunicative)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    I’ll try to explain myself better. My tab content is a collection of WooCommerce shortcodes, so basically:

    [product sku="123"]
[product sku="1234"]
[product sku="12345"]
... more shortcodes ...

    Let’s say there’s 5 products with [product sku="1234"] in their tabs. If I trash the product with sku=1234, the shortcodes are not deleted from the tabs and I have to find them manually.
    To make this process quicker I was trying to use your plugin to search through the custom tab content. My search term is the ENTIRE shortcode, so [product sku="1234"]. My idea was that this would return a list of products that have that specific shortcode in their tabs, but it doesn’t seem to be working

    Plugin Author ILLID

    (@mihail-barinov)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    So, as I understand, you are trying to search for shortcode itself, not for content that this shortcode generated. Is that true?
    In this case I am afraid that you can’t do this because plugin strip all unused shortcodes.

    Thread Starter glabideecomunicative

    (@glabideecomunicative)

    5 years, 1 month ago

    Yes that is what I wanted to do, too bad.

    I tried looking around in the code and I managed to turn off shortcode stripping but it still returns a lot of wrong products so I guess I’m giving up. Thanks anyway for the help!

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