How to display suggested search results

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Last updated by Shane 6 years, 8 months ago.

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May 10, 2018 at 5:28 pm #873086

antonioS-7

Hi!
Is there a way to display at the top of search results view a list of "suggested" results (maybe in a specific category or with a "priority" custom field) matching the search terms?

May 10, 2018 at 8:08 pm #873785

Shane

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Hi Antonio,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Unfortunately no this is not possible because our plugins don't have a way to know how much times a particular post was view.

Thanks,
Shane

May 11, 2018 at 8:30 am #875606

antonioS-7

Hi Shane,
I didn't mean "popular posts", sorry if I explained myself badly.

Let me explain better: imagine a search page where a user search the term "house". Then the page displays all the results, as usual. But some of them appear at the top of the results list (maybe with a different css class) as "Suggested results" because they have been flagged as "Top priority contents" somewhere in the back-end.

Is it possible?

May 11, 2018 at 3:28 pm #876873

Shane

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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)

Hi Antonio,

Yes this is possible just create a custom field that will mark the post. For this you can use a single checkbox to mark these posts.

Then you can use our conditional shortcode to micro filter the results into those that are featured or not. You can also sort the view so that the relevant or featured results appear at the top of the view.

Please let me know if this helps.
Thanks,
Shane