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Anonymous.
Hi there!
I have used the plugin for a house rental company and it works great 🙂 I have one request from the client and that is: How can we set the order of the posts so that we can decide which posts to be shown on the first page before you start filtering results? They have 8-10 apartments that they want to be displayed in a certain order before you can filter your preferred search.
Link to page: https://cityhousing.no/apartments/
Kind regards,
Tom B.
You can only do this if you are using a PHP template to display the results. The logic would be to test if a search has been made. If not, show the default houses using a loop for that, or, if a search has been made, use the loop for the search results. As you are using the Post Type Archive, it is possible that you are using a discrete PHP template. Is this the case, or is the theme a framework, where the archive is made from code hidden in the theme?
So, the logic would look something like this (the ID would match that of the search form):
global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1234)->current_query();
if ((!$sf_current_query->is_filtered())&&($sf_current_query->get_search_term()=="")) {
// the code to display the 8-10 default houses
} else {
// the normal results loop code here
}But, I am not sure Avada uses traditional templates, so this may be difficult to code. In the past, other Avada users have needed to use a third party grid plugin, such as this method (which does not offer the option to do as you want in this case):
https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/3rd-party/post-grid/