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Custom url for search result
Hi,
Adding search functionality to a runway site. The search results template uses <perch:search id="result_url" /> to get the url and as far as I can see here https://docs.grabaperch.com/templates/search/ and in perch:showall, it's not possible to get custom fields. My problem is that I allow the editors to change the blog posts' slugs with a custom text field. This means that the search results items have wrong urls.
I had a hope that the issue with editing post slugs would have been fixed after P3 but looks like not yet. https://forum.grabaperch.com/forum/06-26-2016-changing-the-blog-post-slug
Can you think of any way around the problem? And out of curiosity, is fixing the blog slug system any close to be prioritised?
That slug issue is entirely with the Blog app, so nothing to do with Perch itself. It remains the same for Perch 3 as it was in Perch 2.
What's the value of the post URL in Settings?
Hi Drew. I have Blog post page path:
/post/{postSlug}and Slug format:{postTitle}. Is any of these what you asked for?Yes, so
/post/{postSlug}is what you should get for your search URLI do. In the results I'm getting the posts with url:
post/this-is-the-post-title. And what I wand to get is:post/this-is-the-custom-slug-users-add-in-admin.So you should fix that option in Settings to be correct.
Well, the only fix I can think of is to use
/post/{customPostSlug}or/post/{postUrl}. Both hold the correct value when checked in perch:showall but when I use them in the Settings, I only get/postas the url. The two fields come from the post.htmlOk, we'll take a look at it.
Thanks! I'm actually surprised this is not a popular fix request. Custom blog URLs are crucial for SEO and quite mandatory for migrations.