If you are on the results page, the two forms will not ‘talk’ to each other. You would probably be better to use JavaScript. I assume one is the Text Search, and one the rest of the filters? In V3 (due in a few months), we plan to allow you to split a form up which would have the same effect as you want.

For now, you would be better to hide the one form and add a Text box to the other on the results page.

You can use a wordpress rewrite to point a theme global search to our form. There is an example here (the site shown uses a slug name for the search results page, which looks nicer):

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/using-default-wp-search-bar-to-show-sf-results-page/#post-243811

Here there is an example of one that doesn’t use a slug:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/how-to-maintain-search-string-while-filtering/#post-205209

Ah, let us focus on the sidebar search, as that should be you main search (but, I would normally have the header search, if one of our forms, set to Custom, using the same URL as the sidebar search, with Ajax OFF, and NOT use the guidance I sent you in the previous message, as this header search is NOT the theme search).

That sidebar search should have a text search box in it, so that, when the search from the header search arrives on that page (now set in that header search form as it is now set to Custom, with that results URL).

On the results page, I would hide the header search. If you inspect the results page, in the body tag, will be a class name for the page (e.g. page-id-1234) which you can use to conditionally hide it).

Thanks for letting me know. I will close this thread for now.