Novice stuck trying to get this to work

Anonymous

#58646

I’m stuck trying to make this work on The7 theme.

What I want to do

– create a directory page (search by category and location), and also an event page (search by category and date range).

What I have done

– created Directory page and Directory results page. Created Events page and Events search results page.
– created a form in S&F and put the first shortcode as a Widget in the sidebar of Directory Page.
– put the second shortcode in Directory Results page.

Form settings used and different outcomes:

– As an Archive, using themes Search.php. This brings up the results, although it is bringing up some elements from the theme I don’t want. Am I write in thinking if I duplicate the search.php and rename one directorysearch.php and eventsearch.php and then adjust these with help from the Theme developer, this will be the best solution? I’ve tried using other template phps from the theme but they don’t seem to work right.

– The filter I have created has checkboxes and I want the use can select more than one. Currently if use does this the result comes back ‘Nothing Found’. This happens both if Field Relationship is AND/OR.

Sorry if this is a bit basic, I’ve been fiddling around for ages trying to get it right but now I’m tired so coming here to ask finally.

Trevor

#58648

Hi Ashley

Sorry to hear of your struggles. The7 must be one of ThemeForest’s most popular themes, maybe? I think it generally needs to be used with our Shortcode method, and this documentation section explains how to customize the results and to have more than one form (by copying and renaming the results.php template after the ID of the shortcode):

https://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/search-results/using-a-shortcode/#Customising_the_Results

(and section 2.1 after it)

This is the only other thread about The7 on our forum:

https://support.searchandfilter.com/forums/topic/search-filter-pro-the7-theme-need-help/

Note that our template is basic but I can help you with that.

Assuming that this is a live or staging site (and not localhost), the next thing (it will be tomorrow as today is not a support day, it being the weekend) would be for you to send me admin logins using a private reply, indicating which pages you are working with.

Trevor

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