[Dave Tillotson]

Hi there,

Using slim plus at http://www.sfny.co.uk/business-directory/ and category dropdown returns ‘no results’ each time in all versions of IE. Works fine in Chrome and Firefox though.

Also, the alphabetised filter doesn’t appear to work in any browser.

Any help greatly appreciated.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

On the occasions I run across this it is because the theme or another plugin, usually the theme, is trying to be helpful and adds a HTML 5 “shim” javascript that adds support for the placeholder text in the search box. Unfortunately this is buggy, in my opinion. Go ahead and select a category and then look in the address bar of the browser, notice the there is cn-s=Search. The shim script is causing the placeholder text “Search” to be sent as if you were filtering by category and search for the word “Search” and it shouldn’t be. Obviously, this is not what you want to do.

Unfortunately, other than changing themes, which I would never ask someone to do, the only solution is to make a small edit to Connections so it does no longer use the placeholder text.

Edit the class.template-parts.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/

Search for this line, should be on line 469:

$out .= '<input type="text" id="cn-search-input" name="cn-s" value="' . esc_attr( $searchValue ) . '" placeholder="' . __('Search', 'connections') . '"/>';

Replace it with this:

$out .= '<input type="text" id="cn-search-input" name="cn-s" value="' . esc_attr( $searchValue ) . '"/>';

Save and upload overwriting the original. Of course you should make a backup first.

Now, because the placeholder text is no longer in place, the shim script from the theme will no longer affect the category filter.

Hope that helps.

[Dave Tillotson]

That worked a treat. Thanks Steven. The superfast response also much appreciated.

Dave

[Steven Zahm]

Thanks!

If you haven’t and you have a few minutes, I would surely appreciate a quick review. Thanks!

[Dave Tillotson]

Hi Steven,

OK so cat drop down now working fine (thanks for the fix) but character filter not so. The directory listings simply alter position on the page to (roughly) correspond with the letter selected.

They don’t actually filter for each letter, as one might expect. Is this also an issue with the theme I’m using and, if so, is there a fix?

Help greatly appreciated.

Dave

[Steven Zahm]

@ Dave

The show_alphaindex is not a character filter, it simply outputs inpage links so if the character group is on the current page of results it’ll jump down to the beginning of that group. The functionality will be changing sometime this summer/fall where it will filter by character. The work to do this is about 90% completed as I’ve already implemented it in the admin. Hope that helps.

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