Hey Daniel

How are you excluding taxonomies? Via the S&F UI?

Thanks

Ah ok, well in this case, I really think something in your setup is interfering with the ajax request.

When S&F makes an ajax request, usually, it just loads the result page, and extracts the HTML out of there (I think you won’t have any issues with ajax using any of the other display methods).

However, using a shortcode allows for a much smarter & faster kind of ajax request – but it is retrieved from another URL – if you check your network requests when doing an ajax search using the shortcode method, you will see url like:

yoursite.com/?sfid=12567&sf_action=get_results

It seems that the query performed here is be interfered with (S&F uses the exact same function to build the query)

Something like a pre_get_posts filter in your theme or a plugin I *think* would cause this.

So I think the doing the following is the best course of action:

1) disable all other plugins and test again
2) test with another theme
3) use a filter to make the exclusion manually: https://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/action-filter-reference/#Edit_Query_Arguments

I have just tested locally and on a dev server and am not getting the same issue as you :/

Let me know how it goes

Thanks