Bringing eCommerce style search to WP.com content
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Hello WP folks!
My question is why the standard excellent search experiences customers are used to on eCommerce sites would not also work for content sites like WP.com.
Consider the excellent search experience on REI.com:
Look at that UI, change your filter options on the left, and watch your target results change instantly. Great, right? With a single click you can also remove one or all filters applied. Brilliant. Makes it a lot easier to find the skis you want.
But when it comes to WP (and ALL other content sites, unless I am missing it), there is no way to do a similar compound/complex search for the content you want. All we have is the single search window where you enter text.
So think what the experience of looking for skis in that REI search above would be like if all you had was a single text window to type in. That’s the world we are still living in when it comes to search experience on content sites. It works ok sometimes – but it could be so much better.
So why not offer the exact same style of faceted search for WP content that users know and love for products on REI, Home Depot, Amazon, Lands’ End? Think of WP blog posts as products, and now expose all their dimensions down the left side of the search pane so users can filter and pivot.
So for WP you would have at a minimum: Date, Author, Category, Tag.
Here’s a UI mockup of the concept:
From a technical/UX standpoint, this would be so easy to do! You have all the data. You just need to build the search experience.
Here’s a survey of some current search experiences on eCommerce and content sites:
https://spark.adobe.com/page/5NkxkAeJOcbQM
Anyway, I think this could really improve the search experience on WP.com.
Thanks!
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There is no secure payments system here at wordpress.COM, and you cannot add a shopping cart to create an online store to any sites hosted by wordpress.COM, regardless of upgrades, but creative cost-free workarounds have been developed and shared.
Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations you have two options.
(1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/(2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links
If what I provided above at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress where you can set up a secure payment system http://move.wordpress.com
WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different username accounts, logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
wordpress.org support
The wordpress.ORG support forum is at http://wordpress.org/support. The wordpress.ORG login link is here https://login.wordpress.org/ If you do not have an account yet then click Create an account https://login.wordpress.org/register/ and if you have lost an account password click Lost password? https://login.wordpress.org/lostpassword/
WordPress.org support docs are at https://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page
See also https://apps.wordpress.org/support/ for app support.
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