142 thoughts on “Autocompleter”

1. Nik Chankov Post authorJanuary 18, 2011 at 11:09 pm

   Your problem is called Cross Domain scripting. Long story short you cannot request JS resources from another domain (while your domain.server.com and server.com are different domains).

   Although there are some methods to do this, but definitely this cannot be done with my plugin.
2. Dan January 18, 2011 at 11:32 pm

   Nik,

   It’s not really Cross Domain Scripting.

   It’s Cross Sub-Domain… I think I might have a solution for this that’s regardless of your plugin. Will let you know.

   Thanks.
3. Mario January 21, 2011 at 8:19 pm

   I’ve installed your script on my blog with Concept X theme, and not work. Not work in the search integrated in the header of the theme, and not work in search widget. 🙁
4. Nik Chankov Post authorJanuary 21, 2011 at 11:17 pm

   Most of the cases like yours is because you have some plugin in your blog that includes jQuery after my plugin’s code and this reinit jQuery object and autocompleter’s hooks.

   Possible solution is to disable your blog’s plugins and see which one cause damage and simply to edit it’s code to remove the jQuery link, or disable it for good.
5. Diabetes Therapy April 12, 2011 at 8:09 am

   Is there an automatic posting tool for wordpress blogs to put on auto pilot? We want to post news about diabetes as it surfaces the net.
6. Paul April 18, 2011 at 1:58 am

   I am using this plugin and it works great. However, just recently I noticed that newer posts are not showing up in the auto complete drop down options. However, if I hit enter and go to the search screen they do show up.

   Does it take autocompleter a while to cache new results?
7. Nik Chankov Post authorApril 18, 2011 at 10:15 am

   Hi Paul,

   there is no cache in that module it loads what it finds in the database.

   Are you searching for the words in title or you are searching for any words in the post body?

   Could you send me trough contact form your blog with the phrase which cannot be found?
8. Caner April 18, 2011 at 11:08 am

   Yo Nik, i don’t like your style. Your comment unsubscription links have some tricks (password). It’s not a good idea man.

   (http://nik.chankov.net/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=blabla%40gmail.com&key=51cba4f2b3ff93ee83558404c3e3c591)
9. Nik Chankov Post authorApril 18, 2011 at 11:27 am

   Caner, comment subscription is a module and fortunately or not it’s not mine, so I am just using it and I don’t have any clue what are you talking about. As far I can see your mail is not in the list (anymore)
10. Paul April 22, 2011 at 5:49 am

    Hi Nik,

    Sorry for my delay in responding. I’ve been in a dizzying pace to finish development for my clients launch next week!

    I would share the site, but it is by subscription, and I don’t have their permission.

    I am searching by only post title. I should add, that I altered the wordpress search to only search by Post Title before installing your plugin.

    A little more info: Your plugin was working great, showing results for posts added just minutes before a search. Then one day it didn’t show any posts from an entire day. That is when I wrote here.

    But by the next day the new posts were showing. So I’m thinking it must have something to do with another plugin, or perhaps a piece of code i have added.

    Knowing that your plugin does not rely on a cache, I can at least start to look for other issues.

    Thanks for the great work, and quick response.
11. henri May 6, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    Hi may I suggest a small correction in the autocompleter.php :

    /* Add the autocompleter css */
    function css_autocompleter(){
    //Style
    wp_register_style(‘autocompleter’, WP_PLUGIN_URL.’/autocompleter/autocompleter.css’);
    wp_enqueue_style(‘autocompleter’);
    //wp_print_styles();
    }

    add_action(‘wp_print_styles’, ‘css_autocompleter’);

    I remove the wp_head and use the wp_print_styles instead. I do this because sometimes it create some incompatibilities with other plugins!

    Thanks for this great plugin!
12. Paul May 10, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    Is there a way to have the plugin show “Nothing found” if no results are found? Right now I have people telling me they’re frustrated because they think it isn’t working when they start to search but nothing shows.
13. Nik Chankov Post authorMay 10, 2011 at 11:36 pm

    Paul,

    The idea is really good. I will try to implement it in the next version.
14. Elland June 19, 2011 at 8:47 am

    Hi great plugin Nik thanks for this. but i have something to ask how can i have your plugin to work on two different inputbox? {jQuery(“input[name=s]”) like this one how would i declare this with another var name=where? heres the URL of my site:http://www.youtradeit.com/

    Love to see the City or State inputbox to autocomplete also thanks and nice plugin
15. Nik Chankov Post authorJune 19, 2011 at 12:45 pm

    Hi Elland,
    You have to change the plugin’s code for this. The the main purpose of the plugin is to help the user when he search something in the blog. Where is not a search 🙂 Also I don’t believe that City or State is default blog search functionality.
16. Elland July 25, 2011 at 4:27 pm

    yeah its not a defualt blog search function i just want to an autocompleter with another textfield that could search my database

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18. Thomas van Gurp September 26, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    Would it be possible to use the same technique for populating form fields?
19. Nik Chankov Post authorSeptember 26, 2011 at 10:08 pm

    Hi Thomas,

    jQuery provides very good Autocomplete UI extension. You could use it very easily.
20. James Foster October 14, 2011 at 4:01 pm

    Nik – first of all, *fantastic* plugin… yours was the third I tried in an 18 hour marathon work session, and the *first* that just -worked- right out of the box.

    Now, I know you said last year that it wasn’t really your intention to add on functionality that would allow for the user to click/select a result and go straight to that page… but that would be so *very* useful in many situations, especially for mobile applications.

    If we can’t talk -you- into doing it, could you maybe at least offer some help/suggestions for someone willing to risk modifying your plugin on their own?
21. James Foster October 14, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Okay, so I just realized that with the autosubmit on and page/post selected, that it -SHOULD- work the way I just requested…

    But for some reason it’s not?
22. Phil November 12, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    Hi there,

    Just in case anyone else is struggling, after a lot of debugging, I found that this plugin clashes with the popular WP Events plugin: http://wp-events-plugin.com

    The reason for this clash is that the events plugin uses the jQuery UI Autocomplete function, which shares the same jQuery plugin name.

    This can be fixed fairly easily, by changing the name of the jQuery plugin on lines 6, 462, 492 and 500 of jquery.autocomplete.js and line 67 of autocompleter.php to something else (eg. WPautocomplete). This avoids the clash, and it works fine.

    Hope this saves some other people the headache I had!

    Phil
23. fraer January 21, 2012 at 6:37 pm

    Hi, me like your plugin but “autosubmit” don’t work when you chek it on in admin-panel. This option is not work: 1.3.5 [09 Mar 2011] – added posibility to skip search result’s page and goes directly to the post or page. See Description tab for more details.
    Wordpress 3.3
    This option is most important. Please help me, I have spent 4 hours, but and haven’t solved a problem
24. Nik Chankov Post authorJanuary 22, 2012 at 4:40 pm

    Hi, install the new version 1.3.5.2 from the WP site. Thanks for letting me know for this problem.
25. fraer January 24, 2012 at 9:02 am

    Thnx, but on wp site no have new 1 3 5 2 verion of your plugin, on “changelog” you write about new version but 1 3 5 2 iit impossible to download
26. Nik Chankov Post authorJanuary 24, 2012 at 11:24 am

    Yep, the package 1.3.5.2 can be downloaded, I probably messed something because the version should change. I will try to fix it.
27. christa February 24, 2012 at 4:00 am

    Any advice on getting the automatic form submission when a tag/category is selected and clicked to work on WordPress 3.3.1?

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29. JuanT June 12, 2012 at 2:33 am

    I’m looking Elland’s feature of autocomplete searching in a custom field of cities. Did you get it working?
30. tony July 17, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Hi,

    I have installed this plug-in without any error but I can’t find any widget to work in and I even tried “acpd_display($acdp_title);” directly in php code.

    none worked.

    Cheers,
    -Tony.
31. Nik Chankov Post authorJuly 17, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    the plugin apply directly on Search field in your theme. Start typing something and it should display items at the bottom. If it’s not show anything, probably there is JS error.
32. Adam Bell September 16, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Really nice plugin, Nik. But I got one issue with it though. Is it possible for a category template to narrow down the search to just one category instead of all the categories. I tried adding a hidden input field with a value of my category ID number and a name of cat in my search form, but it doesn’t work with Autocompleter. Is there some way to tweak the code in your plugin to support just one category? But only for one page? In other words, the rest of the site would have a standard search form displaying all results.
33. alon November 16, 2012 at 10:25 am

    hello 🙂
    I wish to know how to make the search input to find only the match of the first word, and no other matches inside a word.

    Example: if typing the fist letters “th” for a word “thinking” and my pages titles are “thinking”, “marathon”, the search results will find me the the “th” inside the word, and i don’t want it to happened… i want it to find only the first word at is beginning.
34. Will December 31, 2012 at 10:22 pm

    Annoying that it puts a small link at the bottom of the page.
35. Nik Chankov Post authorDecember 31, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    You can always deactivate it from the admin. 🙂
36. Alin August 11, 2013 at 11:19 pm

    Hi there, I’m using this plugin, but on my theme it doesn’t work, and on Twenty Ten everything works fine. help.
37. David October 27, 2013 at 2:15 am

    Great plugin, but one major problem. On the WP-admin plugins page, your plugin makes all the other plugins link to YOUR settings page. I can no longer get to the settings page of all my other plugins. They all point now to: http://*****.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=autocompleter/autocompleter.php

    Please fix.

    Thanks, David
38. Matt February 15, 2016 at 10:08 pm

    What file is this code located? The CSS is inline and I want to change the top pixel value.

    Thank you in advance. Nice plugin. Works with twentythirteen theme as well!!
39. Matt February 15, 2016 at 10:09 pm

    div class=”ac_results” style=”position: absolute; width: 192px; left: 0px; display: none; top: 183px;”
40. Tisort June 29, 2019 at 2:04 am

    Hi Nik, I tried adding a hidden input field with a value of my category ID number and a name of cat in my search form, but it doesn’t work.
41. Bez canta July 10, 2019 at 10:20 am

    Hi, error is
    div class=”ac_results” style=”position: absolute; width: 192px; left: 0px; display: none; top: 183px;”
42. Turkbilge April 15, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    hi.
    “div class=”ac_results” style=”position: absolute; width: 192px; left: 0px; display: none; top: 183px;”