Search box is searching the WP core search and not the search and filter

Anonymous

#38272

Hi All

Not sure what has happened but on my website, search and filter all of a sudden is not searching correctly.

Currently set up to search reviews within two custom post types with AJAX. When you type in the search box instead of showing the search results within the two custom post types it seems to be doing a normal WP search and displaying the search results across the whole site.

Some help would be appreciated to get this fixed.

Ross Moderator

#38285

Hi Luke

Is there anything that happened that you can think of.

Ie, did you update S&F, or some other plugins, or WP for example?

What version of S&F are you running?

I would double check your search form settings and ensure your post types are correct, then save your search form, and then “rebuild cache”.

Thanks

Anonymous

#38290

Currently running Version 1.4.3.

I think it did start to happen after updating the plugin but can’t be 100% sure. The staging site does not have the updated version and that is working fine. Code wise, they are exactly the same.

Ross Moderator

#38325

Hey Luke

Thats a pretty old version of S&F…

What you should do is update WP, your theme and other plugins, and also update S&F.

The latest S&F works with the latest WP so both need to be updated not just one of them – and in turn that probably means you need to update everything else, so there may be a fair bit of work there!

Once thats done I can help you get setup with the new version.

Juts make sure first to review the tips in the upgrade notes as we have had a major version change:

https://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/2-0-upgrade-notes/

And report back here any issues.

Thanks

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