Alphabetise results and redirect empty search

Anonymous

#154459

I’m having a couple of problems.

When I use the archive.php as a custom template, I can’t get the results to appear in any of the “Default Order” that I choose. I want to alphabetise results. A to Z.

Also, when a user just clicks the search button without any selection, the non-pro version of the plugin had an empty_search_url setting, but the same thing isn’t working now. Is this feature available?

Trevor

#154666

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Anonymous

#154789

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Trevor

#154820

I made a change to enable Auto Count and to remove the secondary sort. Can you check it again now?

Anonymous

#154822

The alphabetisation works now. Great, thanks.

What about the other issue? Directing an empty search?

Trevor

#154839

Redirecting an empty search is not a feature of the pro plugin, as the plugin is far more complex.

It IS possible to use PHP to detect if a search has been made though, like this:

global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1024)->current_query();
if ((!$sf_current_query->is_filtered())&&($sf_current_query->get_search_term()=="")) {
  echo '<div>Nothing to see here folks!</div>'; 
} else {
  // your VC template archive code/loop here
}

Anonymous

#154841

Is it possible to show all results when an empty search is made?

Trevor

#154850

Does it not do that anyway? It should.

Anonymous

#154885

I realised that it was a WordPress setting I had to only show 10. Thanks for your help.

Anonymous

#154889

Sorry, results are still appearing in order of date.

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