Suggestion for searchable dropdown

  • Resolved rembem

    (@rembem)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    I like your plugin and its simplicity.

    In large websites with hundreds or more pages, the selection with a dropdown is unusable however. The split into 50 items, or your suggestion to exclude certain post types is not a workable solution to this problem.

    Researching alternatives, I came along a plugin that solves this with a jquery plugin that generates a searchbox on top of a dropdown. This might be something worth adding:

    http://jsearchdropdown.sourceforge.net

    Another thing I am missing, but is probably out of scope for this plugin, is reciprocal relations. So that adding post 2 related to post 1, makes post 1 automatically related to post 2.

    These 2 additions would make this plugin really great 🙂

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/related/

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  • Plugin Author Marcel Pol

    (@mpol)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi, thanks for your response.

    For the first question, if this would be included, I think it might only be relevant for websites with many posts. So then it would be an option in the settings.
    But maybe I should first check it out, maybe it just looks really good for all users.

    And I understand what you mean with your second question. Making groups of posts related to eachother can really give you RSI.
    I’m just not sure if it’s workable and if it’s a usefull addition.

    Currently I am a bit tied up, but I will come back and consider your ideas.

    Plugin Author Marcel Pol

    (@mpol)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Ah, I just looked at that search plugin. It looks really nice and usable. Thanks for the idea.
    It’s MIT licensed so it can be included.

    Thread Starter rembem

    (@rembem)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    If you want to check out how the jquery searchable dropdown would work, take a look at this plugin:
    http://codecanyon.net/item/manual-related-posts/1667827
    I bought that one, it does practically the same as your plugin, only with the searchable dropdown. Can’t use that one for now, because it has some other problems.

    As for the second suggestion, this one seems to do that:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/baw-manual-related-posts/

    Plugin Author Marcel Pol

    (@mpol)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Ah, interesting 🙂

    If you are in desperate need though, you could yourself enqueue the javascript and place an event listener on select.related-posts-select to have the jquery plugin work.

    I will make an update for this on the plugin. But don’t expect it next week yet.

    Thread Starter rembem

    (@rembem)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Yes, no problem. I’ll get the javascript in myself :-).

    Plugin Author Marcel Pol

    (@mpol)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Rembem,

    Thanks for suggesting the idea, selecting the right Javascript, and providing a patch :).
    It’s now in 1.5.7.

    Thread Starter rembem

    (@rembem)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Just installed the updated version, looks great!

    Monika

    (@monika)

    9 years, 3 months ago

    hi Marcel
    thanks in advanced => your plugin is great and I love it :-))

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