Don’t Show Results Until User Clicks Submit/Search

Anonymous

#262116

Is there a way to make the plugin not show results at all (on page load) until the user clicks submit? Trying to reduce initial page load speed and considering all options.

Trevor

#262240

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

Which Display Results Method are you using? With some, it cannot be done, with those using a PHP template, it can, with some coding. For example, using our Shortcode method …

… in which case you should follow the ‘guide to customising’:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/search-results/using-a-shortcode/

Once you have a copy of the results.php file in a search-filter sub-folder of your theme, you can edit that file, like this (leave the PHP comments at the top outside and before this code):

global $searchandfilter;
$sf_current_query = $searchandfilter->get(1234)->current_query();
if ((!$sf_current_query->is_filtered())&&($sf_current_query->get_search_term()=="")) {
  echo '<div>Nothing to see here folks!</div>'; 
} else {
  // the current resuts.php code here
}

Where the ID number in this needs to match your form ID (replace 1234). Similar code can be used in your own PHP template file.

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