Can We Make Search Result Pages With Less Fat?
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Please?
Greetings,The good news is that Composr has a nice search feature. The bad news is it is full of fat. What I mean is, it displays the entire page that contains what you are searching for in the search result page, with a button at the bottom to let you view the page. If you have large pages of content and many pages of content containing the searched-for word or phrase, this can sause quite a mess. Imagine, if you will, 20 full pages, each in their pretty little boxes, on a search result page.
I would like to trim it up some, make it less fatty and more like how a search engine would show things. Basically, I'd like the page title, maybe 50-150 characters, and an easy way to go straight to the page for more info.
I've tried to do this by editing SEARCH_RESULT.tpl, and I managed to basically get what I want, with one exception. I can't get a working link to the actual page to display because the link to the page is put at the bottom of the result-view and my method basically was the overflow elipse method.
So, is there a way I can do this? Maybe some magical tempcode I could use or could add to what I've tried? I've looked through the tempcode programing page and found nothing to help me.
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Could you attach a full screenshot of the issue. There are browser plugins that let you take a long screenshot of a page (i.e. it not just the visible part).
We are meant to be taking only the text around search terms, but I am imagining maybe in case the search term occurs so much it is showing the whole page. The screenshot will help me understand better.
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I just did a search for the term "races".
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https://github.com/ocproducts/composr/commit/81a0ae64dd54221336ef411fe4cd51cade9fdfd9
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- If my reply is too Vulcan or expressed too much in business-strategy terms, and not particularly personal, I apologise. As a company & project maintainer, time is very limited to me, so usually when I write a reply I try and make it generic advice to all readers. I'm also naturally a joined-up thinker, so I always express my thoughts in combined business and technical terms. I recognise not everyone likes that, don't let my Vulcan-thinking stop you enjoying Composr on fun personal projects.
- If my response can inspire a community tutorial, that's a great way of giving back to the project as a user.
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