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  • Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 7:31 am #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 Moderator
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 9:12 am #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.

    Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 4:23 pm #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 Moderator
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 4:25 pm #240147

    Here you go:

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

    Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 4:33 pm #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 Moderator
    (Private)  April 15, 2020 at 4:35 pm #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).

    Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 16, 2020 at 4:35 am #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

    Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 16, 2020 at 4:58 am #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 Moderator
    (Private)  April 16, 2020 at 3:52 pm #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/

    Svetlana Lyons
    (Private)  April 17, 2020 at 12:17 am #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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