Multiple Search Issues on Website - Search & Filter Support

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Anonymous
(Private) July 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm #20578

Hello

I’ve been trying for some time to get a multiple dropdown search working for my property site – http://franklins.ie/testing/

From what I can see I’ve installed and set everything up correctly but the search will not refine my results correctly i.e. if I search a location such as BRIDGEND and FOR SALE only a few properties should show.

If anyone could help me out with any tips or ideas on how I could get this to work it would be massively appreciated as I’m starting to worry this just isn’t possible.

Thanks for your time

McCrum

Ross Moderator
(Private) July 1, 2015 at 8:49 pm #20588

Hi Andrew

Please see the 2 ways of displaying your results to get an idea of how they work:

http://www.designsandcode.com/wordpress-plugins/search-filter-pro/docs/display-results/

As you are using the archive method you’ll want to head here to see how to modify the layout of your results:

http://www.designsandcode.com/wordpress-plugins/search-filter-pro/docs/display-results/as-an-archive/

What you likely need to do is create a new page template with the search form at the top, and then if your results are still not updating then possibly see here:

http://www.designsandcode.com/wordpress-plugins/search-filter-pro/faqs/#h-bad-template

Some themes/plugins overwrite the main query so the S&F query is not used for the results.

Thanks

Anonymous
(Private) July 1, 2015 at 8:59 pm #20593

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Anonymous
(Private) July 3, 2015 at 2:16 pm #20698

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Ross Moderator
(Private) July 3, 2015 at 2:31 pm #20699

Hi Andrew

I’ve noticed your issue – you are using a category field 3 times.

You cannot use a category field more than once, for each dropdown you must create a separate taxonomy and assign them to your posts.

You can setup a taxonomy yourself to behave in just the same way as your categories:

http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/create-custom-taxonomies-wordpress/

I recommend creating them via a plugin which is incredibly easy (https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui/) but you can also do it by adding code to your functions.php.

See a similar related post here – where the same problem occurs when using a tag field multiple times:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/and-filtering-not-working/#post-9913

Thanks

Anonymous
(Private) July 3, 2015 at 4:19 pm #20704

Thanks Ross. Perfect.
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