The Search & Pagination extension adds searching and pagination functionality to Simple File List Pro. It is designed to make finding what you need and navigating through large file lists much easier.
Search
A search box will appear above your file list. The file search can be based on name and/or a date range, if the date column is displayed as shown here.
The use of wildcards is also supported. For example: .jp*g would find both jpg and jpeg files.
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Pagination
Pagination controls will appear below the list, plus a total count of the files. You define the size of each sub-page in the main plugin’s settings.
Settings
The extension adds three new options to the Display Settings page…
- Enable Search: Show or hide the search panel
- Search By: Show Search Inputs for Text, Date or Both
- Search by Date Modified: Otherwise search by date added to the list.
- Enable Pagination: Organize the file list into smaller pages
- Files per Page: Choose how many files to show per page
Hey, is there a way to choose a list and only show the most three recent files in a list ONLY. That way it will only show the most up-to-date files in this list and not require pagination as time goes on.
I have already tried turning search of and pagination off with max 1 per page but it reverts to default.
There is not. I would set the paged number to three, then use some CSS in your theme to hide the pagination controls on the proper pages.
Can we ignore case in the search? Seems silly to search for “you” and not find “You Are My Sunshine”
Yes, that would be silly. All searches are case-insensitive.
Will you ever add file content search which is what is really needed – or do you have an alternative solution for searching contents of files in FLP
Unlikely, as this would be extremely difficult to do on a web server, both technically and performance-wise. We’d need to be able to read the contents of the files, then store them in the database for searching. Reading text based files is easy, but PDFs are harder and other proprietary file types, like MS Office docs, may not be readable at all. But even if we could read all of the file content into the database, each file would need to be re-read for each file re-scan to ensure the content is accurate. This would take a long time and require a lot of memory. I doubt most shared hosting accounts could handle it.
I’d recommend using the description field to store content keywords that users would be searching for. Descriptions are part of the search.
Is it possible to add category’s and then do lookup per category?
No, but you could use folders to categorize files, then use the search to find those. However, Simple File List does not use WordPress post categories.
Using the search function I can ´t search in the file descriptions, right? This would be very helpful. Do you plan to add such a function?
Yes, descriptions are part of the search.
How I can change the column width and color background for the first line
You cannot change the width of the table column for only one row. To change the appearance of just the first line, you’ll need to use some javascript (jQuery) in your theme. Here is an example…
https://api.jquery.com/first-selector/