How to stop users from getting *all* posts as Results?

Anonymous

#252304

I am using Relevanssi and Search & Filter Pro together. And I’m using my own page and template file to output domain.com/my-search?_sf_s=QUERY

Everything works great except I just found a little hole… if someone visits domain.com/my-search directly with no query (blank query), then it returns ALL the posts on my site…. how can I instead display the ELSE statement of “No posts match your query” if someone visits that page directly or tries to submit an empty search?

Trevor

#252346

Does that page use a PHP template file? If it does, using a child theme and a copy of that file in the child theme folder, edit that file to place logic like this in to it:

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 products output code here
}

The ID number must match that of your form.

Note, if you are using a page builder, this method may not be possible.

Anonymous

#252406

Thank you. I am using a child theme and I’m using /wp-content/themes/mythemename/search-filter/results.php to output the results.

In results.php at the end I see this:

}
else
{
	echo "No Results Found";
}
?>

Do I put your code somehow around that code at the end of the file? How would I add this and where? Thanks for your advice.

Trevor

#252410

In place of this line:

// the current products output code here

… you would place the code part of the results.php file, which, by default, would be this part:

if ( $query->have_posts() )
{
	?>
	
	Found <?php echo $query->found_posts; ?> Results<br />
	Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
	
	<div class="pagination">
		
		<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older posts', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
		<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' ); ?></div>
		<?php
			/* example code for using the wp_pagenavi plugin */
			if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi'))
			{
				echo "<br />";
				wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) );
			}
		?>
	</div>
	
	<?php
	while ($query->have_posts())
	{
		$query->the_post();
		
		?>
		<div>
			<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
			
			<p><br /><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
			<?php 
				if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
					echo '<p>';
					the_post_thumbnail("small");
					echo '</p>';
				}
			?>
			<p><?php the_category(); ?></p>
			<p><?php the_tags(); ?></p>
			<p><small><?php the_date(); ?></small></p>
			
		</div>
		
		<hr />
		<?php
	}
	?>
	Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
	
	<div class="pagination">
		
		<div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Older posts', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
		<div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Newer posts' ); ?></div>
		<?php
			/* example code for using the wp_pagenavi plugin */
			if (function_exists('wp_pagenavi'))
			{
				echo "<br />";
				wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' => $query ) );
			}
		?>
	</div>
	<?php
}
else
{
	echo "No Results Found";
}

Anonymous

#252412

Works perfectly! Great plugin and superb support! Pls close this thread.

Trevor

#252416

Thanks for getting back to me. I will close this thread for now.

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