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Anonymous.
Hello,
I would like to see posts and products all together on results page. It’s good. But when I add category listbox for posts and products category listbox then I see no results at all. Categories to include were chosen in settings. What can be a problem?
Is there any chance to add Products as category to listbox with other post categories?
Whilst products appears to have categories and tags, they are in fact Custom Taxonomies named product-category and product-tag, and so would be in separate search fields. Worse yet, if you select a Post category in search, it would by definition then exclude products completely from the search.
By the same measure, if you add includes from more than one Category, Tag or Taxonomy in the settings, they act as an AND in the search (narrows the search results), so that if you have includes in Category and Product Category, you will most likely have no results.
Whilst they may be reasons when you want to have one taxonomy across many post types, it is generally not a good idea. Similarly, where a search form has many post types, adding taxonomy form fields may cause problems unless they are common to each post type.
I wrote a blog post some time ago about planning good site data structure.