Can I just filter on the category page instead of creating a new page?

Anonymous

#240056

Dear Developer,
I just want to filter on my category page by Category, Author, Date, Votes/popularity/ without going to a separate page for the search like it is right now. I have a widget where I specify author, date etc.. and it goes to the page.

Thank you,

Svetlana

Trevor

#240059

Are you able to send me a live link/URL to your search page so I can take a look?

Generally, to stay on a taxonomy page, you would need to be using the Post Type Archives display results method.

Anonymous

#240145

Hi Trevor.
This is a page. https://www.svetlanalyons.com/sbc/category/resources/

Is there any documentation how to use Post Type Archives display results method with your plugin?

Thank you,

Svetlana

Trevor

#240147

Here you go:

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/search-results/as-a-post-type-archive/

Anonymous

#240153

Thank you but it is still taking me to a new page.
I endabled Post Type Archives in General

Display Post type as an Archieve as Display Results method

Svetlana

Trevor

#240157

The form must be set to the Post Type Archive method and these options need to be set:

On the General settings tab:

Choose which kinds of pages S&F will try to do this on -> Tag, Category & Taxonomy Archives

On the Display results settings tab:

Enable filtering on Taxonomy Archives

And that Category is also as a field in the form (you can hide it with custom CSS if needed).

Anonymous

#240202

Thank you Trevor.
I did the following:
I set The form must be set to the Post Type Archive met
I checked all of them: Post Type Archives
Tag, Category & Taxonomy Archives
Author Archives

On the Display results settings tab I Enabled filtering on Taxonomy Archives

https://www.svetlanalyons.com/sbc/category/resources

Now it doesn’t go to another page but it doesn’t do anything either.

I can give you an access to my back end if would like it.

Thank you,
Svetlana

Anonymous

#240204

I see it is going to the right URL when I click submit but I need to refresh the page to show results. Submit button shows the right URl but without manual refreshing it doesn’t get updated. The way I refresh I highlight the URL which is displayed after I click submit and then I press Enter. So I almost there 🙂

https://www.svetlanalyons.com/sbc/category/resources/

Trevor

#240309

If Ajax is OFF, does it then work (but the page will reload)? I suspect that the Ajax Container (currently set by default to be #main) needs to be changed. Switching Ajax OFF will test if I am right.

I also note that you are using Elementor, is that Elementor Pro? If our current process does not work, we may need to switch to this method (have a look anyway, it might be what you need – note the addon download at the top of the page):

https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/3rd-party/elementor/

Anonymous

#240360

Hi Trevor.
Disabling Ajax worked!! Thank you!!

One last question. Now on Catetegory page I only see the posts from the parent category Resources. I don’t see any posts from child categories as it was before. Is any setting I need to enable for that or it is unrelated to the Ajax and plugin?

Thank you,

Svetlana

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