Display when no match found

Anonymous

#31494

Hi, thank you for the great plugin. Having had issues with previous versions I abandoned using S&F for a while but now the latest updates seem to have fixed some incompatibility issues with the theme.

At this stage of testing the issue I have is this:

Using display results as archive (it works great and I want it this way) when there is no match however s&f displays the WP standard “Ready to publish your first post? Get started here.

I have tried changing WP options from latest posts to static page to no avail. This is quite annoying.

Can S&F be configured to show a custom page or the themes template page “content-none.php” (as the theme does when using its built-in search) when there is no match in search or filter?

Thank you in advance for your guidance.

Anonymous

#31647

Just to elaborate a bit more – the premium theme has this in the search.php after the loop:

else :
// If no content, include the “No posts found” template.
get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ );

endif;
?>

But it seems when there is no result searching/filtering with S&F this else statement is not honored. Any idea why?

Ross Moderator

#31709

Hi Niva

It depends on the template you are using.

So if you are in fact using search.php, then the above seems correct.

When S&F produces a search with no results, in your template have_posts() will be false, which means the else: part of your code will be run.

What happens when you comment out the line: //get_template_part( ‘content’, ‘none’ ); ?

Does the message disappear?

Thanks

Anonymous

#31758

Thank you very much Ross for putting me on the right track. Indeed I had missed looking into what the content-none.pho contains (silly me!): that page has some weird conditions which I can comfortably change to display a custom message – one of those is the culprit:

 
<?php if ( is_home() && current_user_can( 'publish_posts' ) ) : ?>

	<p><?php printf( esc_html__( 'Ready to publish your first post? <a href="%1$s">Get started here</a>.'), admin_url( 'post-new.php' ) ); ?></p>

	<?php elseif ( is_search() ) : ?>

...

I’ll take it from here.

The one question that remains is should I enable is_search in S&F advanced tab (although it seems it doesn’t make any difference)?

Thank you again for the great support you are providing.

Ross Moderator

#31763

Hey Niva

is_search is an advanced setting which you should only really use if you know what you are doing.

Basically, some themes require is_search to be true in a query in order to display the search results template correctly with S&F – most do not.

I think its preferable to leave this off.

Thanks

Anonymous

#31797

Thank you very much Ross for the advice. All good.

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