"As an Archive" Not displaying results

Anonymous

#34312

Hey Folks,

I’ve successfully installed and am using Search and Filter pro. The Shortcode results are showing up perfectly, but I can’t get the “Archive” results to display and I don’t know why.

I’ve double checked the settings and rebuilt the cache to no avail. On the staging site I’ve used normal search with results, but for some reason this form isn’t returning anything.

Settings are:
General:
Posts, 50pp, Auto submit, AND
Display Results:
As an archive
Use custom template
search.php (which exists in my theme)
Load results using Ajax
Posts:
Published
Tags, Cats and Tax:
Categories – Include: 5

Live site: http://hudsonheritage.org/brewster-mansion/
Search “Hudson” in the search field on the bottom right hand side.

Thanks in advance for all your help,
Adam

Ross Moderator

#34326

Hey Adam

This is likely either to do with the setup of the search template or some other plugins/custom code interfering with the search results and the search query.

The shortcode method is usually more reliable because 3rd party code is less likely to modify those queries, however archive is susceptible to being hijacked because it uses the main WP loop.

Do you see any custom queries on your template? IE – WP_Query, get_posts or query_posts

These are all tell tale signs of overwriting the main WP query, and in effect overwriting the the search results.

Thanks

Anonymous

#34840

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to identify the error. I turned off all the other plugins and I used the basic search.php from the WP TwentyFifteen, but still no results.

I ended up using the basic WP search with a category limitation as demonstrated here: http://www.wpexplorer.com/limit-wordpress-search/

Thanks for the help!
Adam

Ross Moderator

#34900

🙂

Anonymous

#36622

I finally solved this.

I had a function that excluded a category from the main loop, and it was breaking S&FP.

// Exclude properties from the main loop
function exclude_category( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
        $query->set( 'cat', '-5' );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category' );

Ross Moderator

#36639

Glad to hear and thanks for the update.

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