Combine a keyword search with user’s choice of custom field values

Trevor

#254348

You want the results on the Home page?

Are you using Site Origin to build that page?

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Anonymous

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sorry .. it was just to let you know – in case you were looking at the page. no worries

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Trevor

#254406

Using the Home page as the results page, without the ?sfid=4398, is not possible, if you need to use the search.php template, no.

Our demo page:

https://demo.searchandfilter.com/movies/

You will see is on the movies page. Movies is the custom Post Type, so the template in use for that page is the archives template for that post type, and not search.php.

If you have the blog on the home page, and you are searching Posts, then you can use the Post Type archives templates for posts for the results (that is what it will use).

Anonymous

#254413

Hi Trevor – thanks for the demo (if you could ‘bottle’ this up – I might be able to pick it apart to understand better)

I’m using a custom page template (a page) on which is search form an a wp query to show some CPT posts
– and then I get my results by going to the search page to show the CPT posts that i searched for

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So what i will need to do is

Build my landing page on the relevant archive page (in this case … archive-nhs.php)
– your ‘https://demo.searchandfilter.com/movies/’

But what/where is https://demo.searchandfilter.com/genre/action/?’

🙂

Trevor

#254521

We have a Movies Custom Post Type (you can add with a plugin like CPT UI):

Attached to that we have:

Custom Taxonomies (you can add with a plugin like CPT UI):

Genre
Production Company

Custom Fields (Post Meta) (you can add with a plugin like ACF):

Average Vote
Release Date

Generally, ‘Blog’ Posts are or should be used only for actual blog posts. Other types of posts should have their own custom post type. Category and Tag are shipped as standard with WordPress, but should only be used with blog posts. They are really just custom taxonomies labelled as Category and Tag. There are tools to enable the transfer of blog posts to custom post types (Post Type Switcher) and also to transfer taxonomy terms to other custom taxonomies (Taxonomy Switcher). This way, you can go back and fix any data organisation errors you might make.

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