[Mark Wiseman]

I have cmap installed and a couple of entries in the directory.

categories have been created and populate the drop down fine.

The drop down shows the number of entries in the category but don’t show any of the entries when the category is clicked on.

What am I doing wrong?

Link to the main direcotry – http://obn-dev.co.uk/?page_id=4679

This shows a couple of entries, but using the drop down does not work for me.

Thanks,
Matt

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

The issue is that, likely the theme, is include an HTML shim script. The purpose of these shim scripts is to enable HTML5 features in browsers that do not support them. They work pretty well … but, there seems to be a bug in this shim script.

When you click on a category, the “Search” placeholder string in the search box is being sent too. So you’re actually searching for “Search” within the category being clicked. Obviously not what we want to do.

The fix will be to remove the “Search” placeholder text. To do this easily, we can use another plugin.

Changing the search string can be done with the Say What? plugin.

It’ll add a new Text Changes menu item. Click Add New, enter the string exactly as shown in Connections, Search. Next enter connections [notice the lack of capitalization, that's important!] as the domain and then enter your new text. The new text you want to add will be nothing, leave it blank.

That should fix it.

[Mark Wiseman]

Thanks for that. Appears to have worked a treat.

Just want to check though, the Say What? plugin and replacing the word “Search”… will this affect other instances of the word on the site?

I was not quite sure how it worked and why I needed to put “connections” as the domain.

Thanks

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

It will only affect the word “Search” within Connections which is, I believe, only used as the placeholder text within the keyword search input.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Mark

Oh, I wanted to add… The text domain. All plugins that are coded to be translations ready have a unique domain. For Connections, it is connections.

Hope that helps!

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