Results page display

Anonymous

#35740

Hi,

I just inherited a WP website that uses Search and Filter, so I’m not familiar with the plugin (and not very familiar with the template of the site either :/ ). I’ve been trying to comb through the support pages but haven’t found the answers for my questions, thanks for bearing with me in advance 🙂

So our site had Search and Filter (the not-pro version), but I upgraded to Pro for the Ajax features. The regular version and the pro-version are displaying results differently. With the original, the results displayed much like they do on our category pages:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytpiaesmbeum4q6/Screen%20Shot%202016-01-29%20at%201.24.12%20PM.png?dl=0

Here’s an example of the results display now:
http://ctc.warhol.org/search/?_sft_category=germanamerican,italianamerican&_sft_post_tag=craft,family,film,food,furniture,hobby-2,music,musical-instrument,recipe,records,sculpture

And here’s an example of a category page:
http://ctc.warhol.org/category/carpatho-rusynamerican/

I’d like to revert to the old display, just not sure where that happens (I guess it’s a matter of the page template?

Also—as you’ll see on the search page, the options appear as a long column, but I would like to format it in columns. Is that possible?

Ross Moderator

#35747

If you are coming from S&F free then yeah there are a few differences.

The best place to start would be to setup S&F in archive mode, this is pretty much the closest thing to get setup:

Check the display options:
http://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/search-results/

And specifically the page about setting up archive:
http://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/search-results/as-an-archive/

Then the idea is to figure out what template was being shown before for your results, and set that as the custom template filename, probably something like search.php, category.php or archive.php.

I would also recommend to disable ajax for now while you ensure everything else is working correctly.

Thanks

Anonymous

#35756

Wonderful, thanks. I’ve followed the “as an archive” instructions. Now I’m not sure what the next steps are to include it on a page if I’m not using the shortcode.

Ross Moderator

#35764

If you enter a “slug” under display results tab, then you will see the URL the search page is accessible from.

Either:

yoursite.com/?sfid=23423

Or if a slug is entered, then it will be:

yoursite.com/your-slug/

Thanks

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