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Advanced search: Hide some of the options
Ah, I found it!
For the benefit of anyone else who can't see how to do this...
I was looking for it in the options when configuring the menu item, and in the component options in global config.
In ...
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How to encode search text
Copy the file /modules/mod_search/tmpl/default.php to templates/joomla-template/html/mod_search (make sure that the file doesn't exist under the destination directory first)
Add the following to the ...
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How Useful Are Meta Descriptions & Keywords
I will focus only on the question itself, about the 2 meta tags and won't expand on what else would make a website SE Friendlier.
From the 2 meta tags in question, the one that you should really care ...
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Joomla 4 Smart Search: Extra database for indexing data
Some big sites use external indexing software / services to index and search their site. Some are available as Software as a Service, while others can be installed on your own resources.
For Joomla 4 ...
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How Useful Are Meta Descriptions & Keywords
If you're on a content heavy site (continuously updating), then filling in the meta data for each article wouldn't not be as important, as the search engines will use the global meta data, however if ...
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How do I view the search history?
Joomla has two search options: Search and Smart Search. Depending on which you choose may dictate some factors.
For Search (Components > Search) you will need to manually enable gathering search ...
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How do I change the appearance of the search results page?
Best option will be if you use Mozilla Firefox, and then install the add-on extension WebDeveloper.
That extension will help you a lot with discovering where are you on your HTML code, which CSS class/...
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How do I change the appearance of the search results page?
The best way for make this changes is making an override.
First, here some docs for make the override step by step:
https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:How_to_use_the_Template_Manager
Now you need to ...
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How to edit Popular Tags search parent (page/menu/URL)?
You can control this by creating menu items first for the Joomla articles category (blog/newsfeed or whatever), then for the tag component itself.
1. JOOMLA CONTENT
You want to have a page where the ...
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Have several search modules with different search output
Thanks for clarifying the question. I'll leave the Smart Search option in this answer as it may be useful to others in future.
Joomla Smart Search
Enable Smart Search by enabling the Content - Smart ...
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Add search term to search results page
Extra to the default search component, we have another search component
called Smart Search.
You can find this component in:
Components > Smart Search and
Extensions > Modules > New > Smart Search
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Search Results Page error if less than 20 search results
Your containing div has the class .search and you give that class in custom.css a height of 55px. I assume it's because you want to fit the search button into the main navi.
If you want only your ...
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White screen of death
Can you try setting up an alternate page using Components->Smart Search? This might help narrow down whether it is a code problem or server/resource problem.
If it is a code problem, check your ...
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Struggle getting search icon to display on tablets
Ok, after a bit more in depth digging the following fixed the issue:
@media (min-width:768px) and (max-width:991px) {
#t3-mainnav .t3-navbar.navbar-collapse.collapse {
display:block;
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Struggle getting search icon to display on tablets
The search function is in the navbar which is hidden on narrower screen widths.
The relevant HTML is:
<div class="t3-navbar navbar-collapse collapse">
and the corresponding CSS is:
.collapse ...
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How to extend the article search to take into account the values of custom fields?
First of all. This is potentially an awesome idea you have for searcheable admin custom fields. This could be done using template override and/or layout override of
JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR/components/...
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Search Tools not expanding for Advanced Module Manager
It's important to keep your software up-to-date.Your Joomla 3.6.4 has been released in October 2016.
The most recent Joomla version is Joomla 3.9.19 (June 2020). In between those versions, whole bunch ...
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Search Tools not expanding for Advanced Module Manager
joomla.getOptions is a JS function available in Joomla 3.7+, hence the reason you have this error. You have two options:
Source an older version of Advanced Module Manager which is
compatible with ...
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Smart search filter not working
Probably you didn't run the indexer that's why smart search doesn't show any results.
Here are the steps you should follow for the smart search to work (probably you should go to the fifth step ...
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Joomla 4 Smart Search: Extra database for indexing data
If the site is that big then I would rewrite it if I couldn't find a nimble solution. Just to note - remember that every site that has 10-20k records a month needs archive tables or table partitioning....
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Joomla 4 Smart Search: Extra database for indexing data
If your documents are in German, this might be a niche solution (SaaS) for you:
SEMPRIA-Search
a cognitive search engine based on natural language understanding, currently only for German
Plugin for ...
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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 just spotted out my small but really basic, stupid mistake in my own code (above). So, of course I could not really expect that someone will come and stares at a lot of code and spot any mistake in ...
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Joomla 3 Smart Search List Non Search Articles
First thank you for responding, @YellowWebMonkey; I did find the problem.
For each article, I had to add optional meta keywords. I had to create a standard list and added the list to each article even ...
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How change default search setting from "all words" to "any words"?
In the view.html.php file located here: components/com_search/views/search/view.html.php
Navigate to line 102 where you will find COM_SEARCH_ALL_WORDS. Put that whole line below the ...
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How to include the Smart Search box in my home page?
The tag:
<jdoc:include type="modules" name="search" style="xhtml" />
sets up a module position in your template called 'search'. If you look at your module list you will find a search module ...
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search component/plugin in joomla
Override/Change the return values of the getIgnoredSearchWords() and getLowerLimitSearchWord() in /language/en-GB/en-GB.localise.php (and any other /language/<lang>/<lang>.localise.php ...
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Joomla Search Result Article Text Length: Text is truncated in strange places
That's a valid question in terms of questioning where the string is split and how someone could adjust the length of the article text in the search results. The solution is fairly simple at the end.
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White screen of death
Most likely this is caused by your script timing out on certain words, or your memory limit being exceeded on certain words (because they are in so many entries). I suggest you increase the PHP memory ...
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Search Results Page error if less than 20 search results
At the bottom of file /templates/purity_iii/css/custom.css add selector
.search-results {
float:left;
}
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