[Martin Eggeling]

Everything looking good so far with Connections CMap … with one BIG exception: the search function is terrible.

Example:
Searching for Los Angeles gives me i.e Closter, NJ … as Closter contains Los.

I have 4500 business listings of ONE industry. Users want to find a CITY when using it.

I tried every angle on the back end. As I cannot ask a user to use “” as in Google when typing a search term (or city as I want) I had to change the page instructions to “For best results please write your ZIP-CODE”. It’s the only way right now.

I haven’t seen any related post here. How is that possible? What am I missing?

I need a viable solution for this. :)

Thanks,

Martin

[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

It seems your database table do not support FULLTEXT queries, so the search is falling back to partial string matching which yields less accurate results. The only thing I could do, if you give me a temp admin account, is edit the plugin code to remove the partial string matching. The results would then require a full match in order to be returned as a result. Would this work for you?

[Martin]

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[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

Urgent … I slipped with a very small typo that unfortunately had a major fatal error! I need FTP access asap so I can fix my error and bring your site back online.

[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

Ok, I have it fixed. Sincerest apologies for the trouble. A stupid little ) messed me up. The search foir cities should be more exact now. Hope that works for you.

[Martin Eggeling]

Hey Steven;

In light of the upcoming Google algo update that will severely affect organic search rankings websites that are NOT mobile friendly, I’m tackling your connections theme … and run into some issues. Is there any chance that you (obviously paid) fix the following issues on my site:
1. The “search” field at http://www.autobodyshop.org/auto-body-shops-near-me/ is terribly small. I need it bigger and centered.
2. The cmap plugin I purchased from you stopped working months back. Maps for individual search results don’t show anymore.

Thanks,

Martin

[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

First, you should probably update to the latest version of cMap. You have version 3.1 and the current is 4.1. it seems your support license has expired so you’ll have to renew it to access the update. That said…

Here’s some CSS which you can add to the theme’s custom CSS area should make the search input larger. Tweak as desired.

#cn-cmap input#cn-search-input {
  height: 42px !important;
  font-size: 18px !important;
}

#cn-cmap input#cn-search-submit {
  height: 42px !important;
}

#cn-cmap span.cn-search {
  margin-bottom: 16px !important;
}

You seem to being using a plugin which attempts to load javascript on your site asynchronously. For the most part is seems to be working fine… but… it is not loading the javascripts required for cMap. My guess is that the plugin does its thing before cMap registers its javascripts so it does not “know” to load them. This could very well be causing other plugins scripts not to be loaded too. If this is the case, that plugin should be running much later in order to ensure all scripts that are registered are still being loaded. I suggest you deactivate that plugin.

Hope that helps!

[Martin Eggeling]

Hey Steven;

Thanks for the swift and detailed reply.

I bought and installed the 4.1 cmap template.
I added the CSS

Now the siteshot does not work. The map still does not display on individual results. The search field is not centered.

Any chance you jump in to make it work? Again: I’m more than willing to pay for those fixes.

Cheers,

Martin

[Steven Zahm]

@ Martin

Change the CSS I gave you yesterday to the following… needs to be slightly different for the current cMap.

#cn-cmap input#cn-search-input {
  height: 42px !important;
  font-size: 36px !important;
  line-height: normal !important;
}

#cn-cmap input#cn-search-submit {
  height: 42px !important;
}

#cn-cmap span.cn-search {
  margin-bottom: 16px !important;
  text-align: center !important;
  display: block !important;
  float: none !important;
}

Go to the Connections : Settings admin page and click the Display tab and disable the Single Entry Template option. Or. Go to the Connections : Templates admin page and activate the cMap template under both the Individual and Organization template types (links are top left on the page).

As for SiteShot… there is no reason for it to stop functioning. It seems cMap is defaulting to the logo which is its default setting. What is the exact shortcode you are using? Did you do this.

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