Latest Update Messed Up Live Search.

Hello, team tagDiv.

First of all, you added the functionality to disable live search on mobile & amp. Great. But it should only disable populating results in real-time and everything else should be working like before (the search slide should work the same way with animation).

Second, the search feature doesn’t work as it should be. When the icon is clicked, reloading starts, and the search page opens with every single article, every single page on the website popping up on users’ faces. When did the search start working this way? It should be freaking blank with nothing but search bar and just that, there shouldn’t be any articles and pages. You guys should’ve kept it as it was and just have provided the feature to disable live search on search slide. This search, of now, is ugly.

Third, I kept the live search enabled because I want the animation but not the live search. So I tried to disable it from the ajax_mob.php as I did previously. It doesn’t work anymore. The problem I am facing now after commenting the code is that the search in amp doesn’t work. When I type in the search bar and click go on the keyboard, nothing happens.

So please, tell me a way to keep the same search slide with animation and only disable the live search. Also, even after the removal or commenting of the code, typing in the search bar still sends POST requests to the server but doesn’t just show the results on the screen. How can I stop these requests as well?

So here is what I am looking to achieve:-

Please tell me what code to comment in which file to do what. The new search is the worst feature that I’ve ever seen in a theme update.

Update means progress not regress.

P.S.- All the above points and disappointments are targeted at the developers and designers and they have nothing to do with the support staff.

My guess is—you didn’t understand the issue.

To address the mentioned issue, there’s nothing you’d be needing my website login credentials for.

Everything’s fine with my website. It’s just a theme update that I didn’t like and want to keep old functionality that would require little tweak with the code.

It’s a simple task. You just have to tell me which part of the code do I have to modify.

I kindly request you to hand this issue over to Calin.

I’ve really had a bad experience with you the last few times.

Nah man!

That’s not even nearly good.

1: I don’t want “Here are the results for the search:” text and “VIEW ALL RESULTS” button either. But they’re still there but only on the amp.

Now you’d say that’s impossible because that button is used to view the results. Right?

It doesn’t freakin work with Go or Search button on user’s phone keyboard. Right?
But why? Why am I not able to search articles pressing the Search or Go button on my phone’s keyboard?

What if I want to delete that ugly “VIEW ALL RESULTS” button? And I want that deleted.

2: Another problem that you ignored perhaps due to ignorance. This time I will write that with emphasis so you get that completely into your head:—

WHEN. WE. TYPE. A. LETTER. IN. SEARCH. BAR. IT. SENDS. AJAX. REQUEST(GET). TO. THE. SERVER. TO. GET. RESULTS.

The above problem not only happens when we type but also when we change cursor position(only mobile not amp).
I checked that on desktop with inspect elements using arrow keys.

This is a waste of server resources and put extra load on it. I don’t want any ajax results to show, so it should not send any request.

Problem 1 is only with mobile theme. Problem 2 is with both amp and mobile theme.

Here’s a screenshot for text and button, and for the ajax requests.

Also Note: In mobile theme every time we type or change cursor position, request is sent but on amp theme if you type 5 letters quickly at once it will only send 1 request and 5 if type them slowly with a difference of 1 second or perhaps even less.
So if after typing 5 letters rapidl, if you type one more letter it will send one more request totalling 2.

The change in cursor position sends request only on mobile not amp. To test this, open inspect element and render mobile theme. Open networks tab in inspect window(it could be different for macOS), you will see when you type in search bar a request is sent and when you change cursor with arrow keys, another request is sent. That’s a lot of complaints.. Hope you have a solution.

Please show this to developers and tell them to buy a good course from Coursera. Udacity is also good.

Have a nice day,
You do a great job.
Pratiek.

@Pratiek: Same problem!!! And worst is we don’t know if it will work in the next update if we fix the issue. With every update, we have to fix something.

Take it easy, bruh. Take a deep breath.
I am not asking you to find the code which is responsible for this. But, you can’t say that this is how it should work, as you said in the first line because you don’t know anything about UI and UX. So better dry up.

Also,
That is not an ask for the custom work. I’ll explain why.
The developers should educate the support staff about the basic stuff. If someone says that they want to disable the live search, they only want to stop the requests being sent to the server to prevent overuse but still want to have the animation and everything else as it was earlier. Simple. That is an easy and obvious assumption to be considered by developers. So they should teach the support staff about things like that.

But developers tried to solve this problem by giving users a feature to disable live search from the panel. But while solving a problem, they destroyed the user experience and compromised the feel and convenience. Now, this is not support-staff’s fault. Everybody knows this already. But what support staff can do instead of getting mad at customers is to give feedback to developers so that they can provide a solution or at least know that what they did is not much liked.

And if support staff is not allowed to ask for help from developers, then how can they help customers because they know nothing about coding and design.

If you believe that this is how search should work, then please see the Salient theme. It also has a non-ajax search, but the user doesn’t have to leave the page to type in the search box. Why shouldn’t it work like this? I know it’s not your job. But this post should be shown to the developers because they’re trying to get away and avoiding the tough work. Because removing the ajax feature while still keeping the animation would’ve required a lot of code modifications in the javascript that they don’t want to go through. So they just did a little copy-pasting, which was comparatively pretty simple.

I love this theme. And that’s why it’s upsetting me that developers didn’t think about customer’s expectations. When you work so hard to make your customers fall in love with your company and your work, you avoid doing stupid things that can make them hate you.
Either do it well or don’t do it at all.

I agree with him. @Calin: We just want a simple search with sliding animation and no ajax requests. There are so many sites with same functionality, so you should consider this in the next update.

Hello, after 2 theme updates, this issue is not solved. We still have to face this Mobile Search problem.

@Vlad: Do you read what we are saying or just randomly copy-paste that ADMIN URL answer to everyone? 🙁

@Calin, Hope you will answer about this.