Modify results query if specific taxonomy is selected

Anonymous

#211117

Hello.

I would like to add upon defined array of posts in front of all results if specific custom taxonomy is selected in search terms, however I don’t know where to start and documentation wasn’t helpful enough.

I think I somehow had to use filter ‘sf_filter_query_args’, but thats all I could determined right now.

Trevor

#211130

You are correct, but I am not sure how you would do this. I will refer this to the plugin developer, Ross, for his input.

Anonymous

#211140

I have another topic regardless this one.
For example, my search query have custom taxonomy named “product_type”.
I’m using this line to retrive what kind of “product_type” is retrived right now:
$searchProductType = $sf_current_query->get_field_string("_sft_product_type");

However, is there any option to get ID of searched taxonomy instead of “Product Type: Name” ?

Ross Moderator

#211667

Hi Michal

In regards to your original question, about prepending posts to the results array.

I don’t think it’s possible.

S&F uses a WP_Query which is the WP way of generating a query, with the results as valid post objects.

There are no WP_Query params that we can use (in our sf_edit_query_args filters, which is basically a filter for WP_Query args) to do this.

The only way I could see you doing it, is in your results template.

You could run a query for the posts you want, and then combine it with the results from S&F.

I’m afraid achieving this specifically would be out of scope of support, but the above would be the general logic.

You also mentioned being able to do this only when a specific taxonomy is selected, and that can be done with the info from your second question:

You wanted to get the IDs of the terms.

If you use get_array instead of get_field_string you’ll see that taxonomies have IDs as well as slug and label – https://searchandfilter.com/documentation/accessing-search-data/#getan-array-offilterswithvalues-and-labels.

I hope the above is clear!

Thanks

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