Questions tagged [search]
Joomla has a two different Search functions to search in the website's database.
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Search by date in Article Manager Administrator
Is there a way to search by date in the Article Manager Administrator?
You can search using the text input, but it doesn't allow you to search for dates, only ID, AUTHOR, CONTENT, or a free text.
I ...
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Show images in Joomla 3.10 search results (com_search)
I want to show the intro image of articles in Joomla 3.10 search results (com_search).
In previous Joomla 3 versions, I know that you could do this:
Create template override:
/templa tes/...
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Smart Search results missing a category and settings for paginated results
Joomla 3.10.11
I cannot find the settings for this. I have been experimenting with the native search, smart search and an extension for advanced search. We are most happy with the results from smart ...
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Joomla 4 Smart Search: Extra database for indexing data
I'm just about to migrate my site from Joomla 3 to Joomla 4. It's a pretty big website with thousands of articles that leads to problems using the new Joomla smart search.
The indexing of the articles ...
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How do I view the search history?
Joomla has an internal search on my site, so I want to see what visitors (not logged in) are searching for without resorting to outside software. How do I see past searches that were searched in my ...
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Smart search filter not working
I am using a filter on a smart searchbar, I only want to search for tags, categories and articles.
When I am using the filter and I search for example tags, it won't show any result.
If I deactivate ...
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How to search on user_id in cb user lists?
We want to use the id of users for our invoicing.
I've been able to display the user id field in lists and on the logout screen without any problems.
However, we also need to be able to search users ...
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How to avoid downcasing of search words?
Relevance of case information differs from language to language. In English, it might be low, but consider cases like "who" vs "WHO" and "us" vs "US". In German,...
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URL's in search results page are wrong and not the URL of the article assigned menu item
I have Joomla 3.9.21 which has SEF URL's enabled.
All works perfectly, except for the search results page.
For example, this is the SEO link to an article (which is assigned a menu option whose root ...
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0 Call to a member function getState() on bool in search bar
As per mentioned in subject, my website is generating the following error when the user fails to search with a keyword:
0 Call to a member function getState() on bool in search bar.
Can anyone ...
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Custom search box query for homepage
I'm really new to Joomla and I have some basic experience with HTML/PHP and mySQL
I have a seperate DB in mySQL which has only 1 table & 3 fields to be populated, this part I've already setup and ...
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Search Tools not expanding for Advanced Module Manager
My joomla 3.6.4 site has been recently upgraded to Php7.1.33
I am seeing one issue in Advanced Module Manager. "Search Tools" are not expanding for it. It is expanding for Article Editors ...
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How to include images in Joomla's search results?
I'm trying to display images in search results for the default search of Joomla.
I messed with some code from the web and I managed to display images with the following:
in template/html/com_search/...
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How to extend the article search to take into account the values of custom fields?
In articles I have added a series of custom fields, now I need to be able to filter through these fields, while being in the article manager view. I have searched about it but without success, I just ...
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Search functionality returning wrong results on multi-lingual site
Search works well for only one language on my site.
My website is on 2 languages -- French and English -- but the search works for French only and not working as desired for English.
Example:
If I ...
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Make Search bar dynamically appear at top of body
One of our clients would like to have a search icon in their Main menu, which when clicked causes a search bar to appear at the top of the website's body. An example of this behaviour is at https://...
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Google Search Console Crawl Anomaly in Joomla 3.x
Check the URL - no errors
https://www.dach-spengler.eu/sitemap.xml
https://www.dach-spengler.eu/robots.txt
In the google search console, I got the error:
Crawl-Anomaly
Submitted Sitemaps
Status ...
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Index content of YOOtheme text modules
I activated the Zoo search plugin as described at https://yootheme.com/support/zoo/search-plugin and yet what inside YOOtheme text modules (created using the YOOtheme builder) isn't indexed for the ...
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Struggle getting search icon to display on tablets
I have quite a specific problem and just cannot seem to figure out what is going on.
I have a Fontawesome search icon which when clicked opens a VM search in a dropdown. This works fine on most ...
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in Joomla 3.8 default search tools do not respond in my own component and cannot set and get state of the filters
I try to get some help from you to spot what I am doing wrong (what I am missing) on applying search tools and filters in the admin of Joomla 3.8 in my own component.
I am pulling my hairs out since ...
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Advanced search: Hide some of the options
I am setting up a site to use the Joomla Smary Search component (com_finder).
The component is working well, but I have a question about the advanced search options.
When the advanced search options ...
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Joomla 3 Smart Search List Non Search Articles
I am a wee bit confused with the results from a Smart Search search. The site ahs about 50 articles, search for a specific term which there are approx. 10 articles that have that search item.
example ...
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How can I pass a value from a field in a modal to a processing script using SEBLOD?
I have a button in a list & search form that when clicked displays a modal where the user can select an item from a dropdown and click another button to call a processing script. The user can ...
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How change default search setting from "all words" to "any words"?
By default, in the Search module of Joomla, "all words" is selected by default. I want "any words" to be selected by default.
Does anyone know where I have to make the changes in files and the ...
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How to include the Smart Search box in my home page?
Currently I am having the normal search box in my home page with,
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="search" style="xhtml" />
I want to replace it with Smart Search plugin as I need to change ...
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search component/plugin in joomla
I am new to joomla! and would like to design a custom search plugin to search through my database. I know that when using the default search, the onContentSearch() function is triggered and "search ...
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Category Blog Allows Viewing of all Categories
I have a Category Blog Menu Item where I have chosen all articles with category News to be displayed and layed out how I like. However, by creating just one Category Blog menu item on my site, now all ...
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Joomla Search Result Article Text Length: Text is truncated in strange places
I am using the Joomla Search module with a Menu Item pointed to '/search'. When a search is performed, the results list a linked title, a snippet, category and the created date.
The snippet is ...
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How to encode search text
I'm having a bit of a situation here, because of encoding. This problem occurs only on internet explorer (yes, that guy ...).
I'm using the search component, which works nice by the way, but whenever ...
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ajax live search only works on Home page
i'm using ajax live search on my site.
but it only works on the home page of my site.
after looking for its problem, i found out that a piece of js code that is supposed to load in , only loads when ...
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White screen of death
I do have a weird issue with my Joomla 3.6 page.
All works fine except the search. It works with several words but unfortunately it stops working with a total white blank page (even no HTML-markup).
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Search Results Page error if less than 20 search results
I have a strange bug that I can not seem to wrap my head around.
Using the default Joomla Search function, whenever I have either an empty results page (on first load) or less than 20 results for a ...
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Search in custom component
How can I improve the Search component in joomla 2.5 to set search by my custom component?
Can't find, where I can modify the search request to database.
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With help of Rene Korss I solve the ...
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Joomla Search - Remove "Ordering" Drop-down menu
How do I remove the "Ordering" drop-down menu option from Joomla Search?
I need to remove the Green highlight section not the Red section by setting 'Use Search Options' to 'No'.
Thanks!
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Add search term to search results page
I'd like to include the search term on the search results page.
What's the best way to accomplish this?
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Problems with Search
Im new to Joomla and trying to figure out how to use search.
I have three categories: French level 1, French level 2, French level 3.
When I do search for French level 1, all three categories come up ...
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Have several search modules with different search output
I'm looking for a solution to have several search modules on one of my sites to search different article categories.
For example I would have 3 search modules located on certain pages, where:
1st ...
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Accent-insensitive search in com_search
I just came across a special requirement - using the com_search and the Joomla search module. Currently I am getting results that are different if the search keyword contains accents or not.
So "...
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How to set up tag search in joomla 3x?
Joomla has standart tag search module, when i use it result is list of articles titles.
How to set up a search on the tags so it gave a list of previews of articles with the headline, text and photo ...
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How Useful Are Meta Descriptions & Keywords
When writing Joomla articles I tend to leave out the meta information under publishing options, but should I be including it and if so, what benefit (if any) will I notice as regards page ranking?
I ...
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How do I change the appearance of the search results page?
Can anyone offer some guidance on how to change the look of the Search Results page? Right now there is no visual separation and everything looks very condensed and cluttered making it hard to view.
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How to properly add a series of checkboxes to Search Options?
I've been tasked with extending the normal Search Options (created with Component Creator, if it matters) to be located on the left of the page, and include a long list of various checkboxes to filter ...
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K2: Search Extra fields
My site is a photography gallery website built with K2. Each K2 item is a photo. I have attached extra fields to each of the photos, for example, resolution, shot by what camera, style, etc. I'd like ...
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Joomla plugin search not working
I upgraded my Joomla site from 1.5 to 2.5 and a few weeks ago to 3.4. I realised that my search didn't work. It returned a white blank page.
I struggled over some articles on the web that a broken ...
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How to edit Popular Tags search parent (page/menu/URL)?
Making a joomla 3x website, testing it locally in wamp.
My main menu layout is:
Home | News | [and so on...]
News page includes the "Popular Tags" module which displays most popular tags.
If I click ...
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Is there a module that allows us to show Python code in a Joomla article?
I was searching for a module or plugin or an extension in general that allows me to show Python code with the syntax highlighted. I found 2 extensions, namely Display Code and Flexi Custom Code, but I ...
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SQL multiple filter doesn't work
I recently created a custom component for Joomla! 3.x designed to handle quotes.
It's quite simple: I insert various quotes in the database and I want to show them in frontend lists.
I also created ...
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Search component pointing to wrong SEF URLs in Joomla 3
My search component is pointing to the wrong URLs. When the user clicks on them, they're redirected to the home page.
For example, the search returns:
http://cursos.portal-gestao.com/9-excel/...
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Menu getActive() returns "Trying to get property of non-object" in Search Component
To identify the pages am using the following code
if($menu->getActive()->id == 203){} // some actions
this line returns error in search page. Search url goes like this
http://localhost/...
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Add new state on searchtool component
I want to add a new state to the article list filter on the search tool. The dropdown, has the states, Published, Unpublished, Archived, etc.
How do I add another state to the dropdown? Is there some ...
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