I think the first thing to do is see if using our extension for beaver builder will help:

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/3rd-party/beaver-builder/

(there is a download link at the top, which you should be able to see if you are logged in)

Second, it might be useful for you to send me a live link/URL to your search page.

Third. Generally, it is not a good idea to have multiple parent/child trees within a single taxonomy (it may be that you have found this to be the case). In relation to our plugin, when designing forms, you can use a data term source only once per form, but you may well want multiple fields, each based on one or other of those parent/child trees. It is much better to split the taxonomy (in your case Category?) up into smaller chunks of terms. This happens a lot on WordPress sites, so there are already some very good tools to make it easier. This post discusses it:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/elementor-filter-not-working-showing-all-results/#post-221562

I think that the issue you are facing is that the Beaver Builder integration requires a fixed results URL. I think we plan to make this more flexible in V3 (due in a few months), but for now, let us take you example.

You have gone to:

https://mywebsite.com/nfl/afc/afc-east/

using the site navigation system. That page should be identical to:

https://mywebsite.com/nfl/?_sft_category=afc-east

Is that correct? If it is, then you could use a WordPress re-direct so that when you click on the archive page link, WordPress will rewrite that to the search page equivalent. I haven’t written such a rewrite example in the forum, but I would guess it might look like this:

function sandf_change_afc_archive_url_rewrite() {
	if ( is_category() ) {
		$category = get_category( get_query_var( 'cat' ) );
		$cat_slug = $category->cat_slug;
		wp_redirect( home_url( "nfl/?_sft_category=" ) . $cat_slug );
		exit();
	}	
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', 'sandf_change_afc_archive_url_rewrite' );

This would go in the child theme functions.php file. WARNING: I HAVE NOT TESTED THIS!

What do you think? Would this be acceptable to you? If it is, can you try it? Let me know what happens.

Then, I think if we can resolve that issue, the Beaver Builder issue will need to be taken up by our plugin developer, Ross. But, we can deal with that after this first issue is resolved (at least for now).

Understood. Do get back to me and let me know how you get on?