Search Not Filtering

Anonymous

#2543

Hi guys,

Great plug-in! I tried to search the forum for other tickets like this, but I couldn’t see a lot of the results because the messages were marked as private.

I have a form setup to filter using AJAX (I’ve tried without it too), but when I use the search field (I’ve also tried a dropdown with taxonomies) nothing is actually filtered.

I’m using a custom post type, which is correctly selected in the settings. I’ve also set the unchecked the custom template (for simplicity), and set the content selector to the right location.

I’m pretty stumped about what I’m doing wrong. Can you help?

Ross Moderator

#2559

Hey Andrew

The first thing to check is, does the search work without ajax? This must always work how you want first, then enable ajax and see if it is an ajax specific issue 🙂

Also, can you send me a preview link?

Thanks

Anonymous

#2567

You can see the test site here: http://asylum-dev.rootid.in/join-us/spread-word/

It does appear to work without the AJAX. I’m being taken to the search results template.

For instance: http://asylum-dev.rootid.in/?s=descriptive&sfid=2m

Ross Moderator

#2627

Hey Andrew

Just taking a quick look and some settings you should try:

Tick use custom template and make sure search.php is entered as the filename

Enter a slug for the search form such as search-results and then try to access your search page by the slug, for example with the slug above it would be:

http://asylum-dev.rootid.in/search-results

So go directly to this URL and you will see your search results template.

Now, what you want to do it get the search form on to this template, so I would suggest adding a widget in for example, or editing search.php and placing the shortcode somewhere near the top and outside of where your results are displayed.

Once you’ve got all this setup you should notice it is working much better, then it will be simple to enable Ajax, just let me know when this is ready.

Thanks

Anonymous

#2664

This is now getting results on the search page, but I’m still not able to get the AJAX working correctly.

http://asylum-dev.rootid.in/search-results

http://asylum-dev.rootid.in/join-us/spread-word/

Ross Moderator

#2709

Hey Andrew the problem here is that both pages/templates do not have the same structure or container with a matching ID.

For the first link- you could use .col-left as you AJAX selector – and it should work fine…

However the spread the word page does not have such a selector.

Basically both page need to have the same container existing for AJAX to work, so either add .col-left to your spread the word page, or you could use #main-listing from the spread the word page and add it to your search results page…

Let me know if you need further explanation 🙂

Anonymous

#2745

Ross – thanks for all the help. Looks like we’re all set to go.

Ross Moderator

#2786

Great news glad its sorted 🙂

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