Search box

Richard

This discussion was created from comments split from: Page/search speed at 130,000+ images.

magwa

@Allen said:
You can go to any level on your site, folder or gallery, and search a tag in the top right search box and get results at that level and below.

Where has this nice feature gone please! ? The search box has disappeared from the top bar & replaced with "What's New" [well I get that in notifications anyway]. If I use the search link from top left the results are site wide - no good for me. I can stick a search box on folders set as such but this looks awful, clunky & would be too onerous to put on every folder. All is as was when not logged in - but I need to search with the hidden images included - so why can't the usual search box go back in place? Or am I missing something?
TIA - Pam

Allen

I noticed yesterday the search box has disappeared? I used that search box in a specific gallery at least three times a week.

Allen

I need to search in a gallery. I have currently 252 of my daughters stops. This keeps growing.
Every new stop I create a new image.
She uses this to see what her delivery location looks like long before she gets there.
So need to search on any of these: street number, street name, company, city, state, etc.
Also something like searching on the term "Bass Pro" and seeing all of them visited.
example:

Chasing Daylight

Search was moved into a menu - upper right corner, click on your profile icon and in that menu you'll find 'search my photos'.

magwa

Yes, I meant to mention that too; but it is also site wide and not from the level you are in and below😕

Allen

That is site wide not location gallery specific. Useless. Have that search link in my top menu.

Jtring

Strangely, the gallery-specific search tool is still there on the header bar when NOT logged in, so one work-around is just to log out. A second work-around, at least for one or a few individual galleries, is to insert a search widget on the gallery page. It's under "Discover" when you have the Customizer open. It's scope, too, is limited to the gallery.

I almost suspect SM moved the search function to the account drop-down menu without realizing the specific functionality of the old search widget on the header was different from that on the "search my photos" page under the profile icon.

(And I wonder if this deserves it's own thread. This thread has morphed far from "Page/search speed at 130,000+ images" and it's not specific to Pro Sales Support.)

Allen

I do not have a header bar, what ever that is?

Jtring

You can turn it on or off. Yours is off. I've opted to keep it on but have hit it with a fair amount of custom CSS. Go to Customize/Content and Design, then click the green Settings button at the upper right. That opens the Design Settings dialog box which has the option to turn the (logged-out) header bar on or off.

I'd note that having the search box up there was one of the reasons I chose to keep the header bar on my site.

Allen

I added one to the right side of the breadcrumb in all that blank space. Fit right in.

magwa

@Jtring said:
Strangely, the gallery-specific search tool is still there on the header bar when NOT logged in, so one work-around is just to log out. A second work-around, at least for one or a few individual galleries, is to insert a search widget on the gallery page. It's under "Discover" when you have the Customizer open. It's scope, too, is limited to the gallery.
I almost suspect SM moved the search function to the account drop-down menu without realizing the specific functionality of the old search widget on the header was different from that on the "search my photos" page under the profile icon.
(And I wonder if this deserves it's own thread. This thread has morphed far from "Page/search speed at 130,000+ images" and it's not specific to Pro Sales Support.)

Yes, as I said above, all is as was when not logged in - but I need to search with the hidden images included & I can stick a search box on folders etc but this looks awful [as already 2 other searches available], clunky & would be too onerous to put on every folder/page as I have many designated "this folder only". If the drop down search box was current folder & below as it was in the top bar, it would be fine. Perhaps as you say SM didn't actually realise the specific function. I will mail SM directly.

Jtring

@magwa said:

Yes, as I said above, all is as was when not logged in - but I need to search with the hidden images included & I can stick a search box on folders etc but this looks awful [as already 2 other searches available], clunky & would be too onerous to put on every folder/page as I have many designated "this folder only". If the drop down search box was current folder & below as it was in the top bar, it would be fine. Perhaps as you say SM didn't actually realise the specific function. I will mail SM directly.

Yup, I totally slid past your observation -- the day before I posted no less! -- that all was well when logged out. My apologies for not citing it. It's also good to identify the situations where the work-arounds don't work.

Jtring

Hey, this got restored! The search icon in the logged-in header bar is back and works as before. If you are in a gallery, it is smart enough to launch a search of photos or videos just in that gallery. If you are in a folder, it searches down from that folder, with the full suite of types to look for: photos, videos, galleries, folders, or pages. On a page, of course, it does a whole-site search.

Allen

I would like to see the photos in the search results in their original ratio. I search all the time in one gallery
and all photos contain text I look at. Much easier then having to click on each to expand.