How to use the widget with CPT's?

Anonymous

#79812

I have several questions but have decided to go back to simple and work up from there. I would very much appreciate any guidance you can offer in the following areas:

1. What is the best practice recommendation for employing the Search & Filter Form sidebar widget on a site that has several different CPT’s in addition to Posts? If I choose a Search Form that was configured for a particular post type it does not work on pages that display other post types, and if I create a Search Form that can search multiple post types the filters don’t reflect the current post type… I don’t mind setting up an appropriate Search Form for each post type but can’t see how to configure a widget that way. Perhaps the general site widgets are simply not a good place for this…

2. Is there a best practice recommendation for replacing the search many themes support in the Nav Search Icon? Instead of relying on the user to perform a basic search first using built-in functionality and then adding Search & Filter to the results page for additional drill-down, I would love to have that expand out to a rich Search & Filter widget when clicked. I guess my fallback is to simply make it a navigation button that would take them to a search page.

3. Do you know if anyone has used this with Toolset and Beaver Builder and CPT’s? If so, any pointers? I would love to fully utilize the Ajax search in all CPT’s and with good looking designs. Better yet if I can use Toolset to restyle the Search & Filter UI to match the rest of the site. My coding skills are pretty rusty. I am coming back up to speed out of necessity but configurable solutions or step by step guides are still super helpful.

Thank you,
Steve

Trevor

#79854

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Anonymous

#80463

Thank you Trevor. I decided to rebuild the site with Toolset and will take another run at implementing the plugin when I have it a bit close to finished. Are you aware of anyone having integrated with Toolset before?

Trevor

#80487

Our plugin does support much of Toolset, but a few advanced features might cause some difficulties. It is why I prefer to use CPT UI and ACF (or ACF Pro).

Let me know how you get on and if I can close this thread?

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