Search-Results not showing up like the demo

Anonymous

#1553

Hello
I just installed the plug and followed the documentation step by step.
My goal was to create a filter system juste like the one you did on the movie-review demo.
I have a serie of custom post types for every film, and once I search via your plugin, the result does not look like the one in your demo : I have the picture and the excerpt and that’s all.
I wish I had the same look of your demo : picture + rating + genres + director + actors, and of course, with the link to access those archives.
So, how can I achieve this ? I have noticed I cannot make the plug work with AJAX (probably because I don’t know what are the parameters of my template for “content selector” and “pagination selector”).

Ross Moderator

#1555

Hey Julien

The plugin does not help with the formatting of your results.

If you have a movie website which displays your movies with the ratings etc, then you can use this plugin to search those movies – it will not create a movie site for you.

This is nearly impossible, because there are so many themes each with their own code, CSS etc, and so many variables (ie your taxonomy names can have any name, or your post meta can have any name and it is impossible to predict what a user will be using)..

The plugin only allows you to search your posts and display the result using a template in your theme, or a custom template (which will be made by you)…

In the settings, under “custom template”, you can try to use different templates from your theme to display your results. You can try almost any template from your theme such as search.php, category.php, index.php and many others…

What it sounds like you would like to do is create a custom template for listing your movies – so you need to create a custom template in your theme and then make sure your put the name in settings (for example movie-posts.php)..

This tutorial is a great way to get started:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/06/04/using-custom-taxonomies-to-create-a-movie-database

And also I would be happy to send you the template file I used in the movie example, but be warned it probably won’t work with your setup without some modifications.

🙂

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