Customising the Results

Anonymous

#40912

Hello,

thank you for the plugin!

I have a problem customising the results.
I use the “Using a Shotcode” display results method.

I did what you described in your documentation:

Customising the Results

If you wish to customise the display of your results, you must override the default template that is being used by Search & Filter:

Create a folder in your theme folder called search-filter.
Copy the file wp-content\plugins\search-filter\templates\results.php from the templates folder in to the newly created folder in your theme – wp-content\themes\your-theme-name\search-filter\results.php

From now on, Search & Filter will load this version of the template instead of its own – so you can make any customisations that are necessary.

Unfortunately this did not change anything. They look the same way as before.
They don´t look like the results I get when using the standard search on my template.
I would like the results to appear in the same way they appear in the standard search on my template.

When I use the display results method “As an Archive” the results look great.
But the results are on a different page and you said the Ajax is slower.

Best regards,
Georg

Trevor

#40932

I need to be clear on what you did. Did you follow the first section instructions on that same documentation page, as follows:

Create a new Search Form
Add some fields to the Search Form UI by dragging from the Available Fields box in to the UI box – for this example lets just add a Search Field and a Submit Button
In the Settings box, under the Display Results tab select “Using a Shortcode” – you will now notice the Shortcodes meta box (underneath the Publish box) has an additional secondary shortcode called the Results Shortcode.
Publish this.
Now, create a New Page, on this page add both the shortcodes found in your Shortcodes metabox (your IDs will be different):

[searchandfilter id="1428"]
[searchandfilter id="1428" show="results"]

Publish the page, and then click View Page
Copy the Full URL of this page from the address bar and paste into the the S&F form, in the Results URL option and update (this can be found in the Display Results tab).

Did you also make changes to the results.php file to customize it?

If so, can I see the live page?

Anonymous

#40960

Now I see the problem.
I did not make any changes to the results.php file to customize it but just copied it.
Sorry, I am new to this.

I now opened the results.php in an editor and I also opened the search.php from my template.
Do I have to copy the whole text from the search.php to the results.php?

Trevor

#40961

Probably not. I need to see what is in the theme’s search.php file. Can you upload it to something like dropbox and give me the download link? You can do this in a Private reply.

Anonymous

#40962

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Trevor

#40964

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Anonymous

#40965

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Trevor

#40966

OK, can I step back to a previous question I asked. Did you make a page in WordPress to view the results on? If so, what is the live URL? I would like to see it working (or broken).

Anonymous

#40970

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Trevor

#40991

OK. It seems to me that we ask a user to choose between shortcode or archive, but you want a hybrid of the two to achieve what you want. It isn’t possible using S&F out of the box. BUT … it is possible (but by you, not us as it is not really in the remit of support) to choose to use the shortcode method and to copy over html structure from one to the other. It’s just a drawn-out process of copying over php and html structure and making sure that it works, making sure the theme’s css works with it (adding or changing css classes and HTML markup as necessary). So, it can be done.

BUT … it looks like the only thing stopping you from using a template in your theme with archive display mode is the URL. In which case, if you select archive mode, you could use the “set a slug” option under display results, so you could get a URL like you want.

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