Problems setting up Woocommerce search

Trevor

#71768

Hi Andy

It is late here, so my next reply might be in the morning. It might be easier for me to see the setup in the admin, so is it possible for you to send me a private reply with admin logins?

Anonymous

#71770

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Trevor

#72083

The real site has that search page, but not the staging site? I can see that you have Maintain Search Form State enabled, which I would not, and Enable Auto Count off whereas I would have this ON.

You also have the form restricted to products with just those four categories attached.

I also note that the Results Container is set to #content but when I look at the results page, that div also includes the search form, which is not allowed, so changing the results container to .search-filter-results in this case might also help.

Anonymous

#72095

Hi Trevor, thanks for getting back to me.

I didn’t set up a specific ‘Search’ page on the staging site as ideally, I’d like people to be able to filter results when they are in category pages of the shop – for example, if they know they’re interested in bungalows and go to that category page, they will get 16 results. But if they only want to look at 2 bedroom bungalows, or ones with an integral garage, I’d like them to be able to filter the irrelevant products out.

With the non-house design products, I don’t want the filter on there at all as it won’t be relevant, hence why I limited it to just those four categories.

I don’t know if what I want it achievable so will rely on your superior knowledge of what will work. If you think it would be better to replicate the Search page from the original site, I’m happy to do that.

Thanks

Andy

Trevor

#72101

Did you try changing the settings as suggested?

Anonymous

#72107

Yep, I made those changes, rebuilt the cache and cleared the cache on my site but still getting what looks like the same set of results unfortunately.

Trevor

#72109

mmm

OK, well, I will need to be able to play, so as to setting the search page up on staging, yes please.

Anonymous

#72111

Hi Trevor,

Ok so I have replicated the Search page at http://staging.houseplansdirect.co.uk/search-house-designs/

and now it appears the correct search results are being returned after a few quick tests. I’ve got it returning results using a shortcode as per the live site, the only issue is the layout but from memory that was fixed easily enough when I set it up on the live site.

So am I right in thinking that S&F won’t work with Woocommerce the way I’ve described?

Thanks

Andy

Trevor

#72113

Hi Andy

What is different about the live and staging? The way you set up attributes etc?

Anonymous

#72115

Hi Trevor,

The live site doesn’t use Woocommerce at all. All of the house designs are posts, which link to Easy Digital downloads products which people can download.

We decided to switch to Woo, hence the staging site. So all the old posts have been converted to Woo products.

The way I saw S&F working was that when people are in the category pages for house designs, they can filter by number of bedrooms, features etc. But these filters would not apply to the non-house design downloads, as these are e-books, brochures etc. So when I first set S&F up on the staging site, I followed the guide to setting it up for Woo.

If we have to stick with the dedicated search page for it to work then so be it, but it would be cool if it worked in the Woo pages as well.

Andy

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