Selected Category not Populating Posts

Anonymous

#36395

Hey all,

I’m very happy with the functionality of the Plugin, especially the Ajax, but when i click the dropdown on my site and select a category which has posts, it refreshes the URL correctly and uses Ajax but doesnt actually filter the posts in that category, it just “flashes” once then remains the same, any ideas what i am doing wrong?

I have inserted my dropdown box in a specific position in my index.php template using:
<?php echo do_shortcode( '[searchandfilter id="140"]' ); ?>

Any help to get this working would be appreciated 🙂

Anonymous

#36448

Hey guys, just bumping this, i really need to fix it as its an urgent project.

Ross Moderator

#36452

Hi Edward, no need to bump, we are just not open on weekends!

So here’s what I can see:

1) Either there are no results for any option in the dropdown or there is some other bug. Enable “auto count” and see what the count number is next to the options for the categories. I’m thinking these might all say (0) with auto count enabled? Keep auto count on, and remove any settings you may have in the tabs “Tags, Categories & Taxonomies” and “Post Meta” – does this help?

2) In you ajax settings you have chosen the selector #post, however when there are no results, this selector cannot be found, causing an issue updating the content after the ajax request.

This is a page with no results: http://www.pixeldeck.net/?sfid=140&_sft_category=icons and there is no #post whereas http://www.pixeldeck.net/?sfid=140 does have it – so you template needs modification of this div with the #post so that it is always present.

Thanks

Anonymous

#36456

Hey Ross, thanks for the reply!

When I enable “auto count” the dropdown menu changes my categories to (0), but when its disabled, it starts to show (2), (1) etc, next to the respective categories, as i do have various posts in proper categories, however this doesn’t fix the Ajax Updating Issue.

Regarding number 2), I’m not sure what you mean. The #div of #posts stays exactly the same on my index.php file, here is the first line of code:

<div class="posts" id="posts" data-paged="1" style="position: relative; height: 792.952px; opacity: 1;">

If necessary i can provide some login details privately so you can take a look, im sure you could fix it rapidly

Ross Moderator

#36498

Hi Edward

1) In S&F keep auto count on, this is what S&F sees, so its best we figure out why those options are listed as having (0) results.

After this did you follow the advice?

I’m thinking these might all say (0) with auto count enabled? Keep auto count on, and remove any settings you may have in the tabs “Tags, Categories & Taxonomies” and “Post Meta” – does this help?

2) Just take a look at this search result page I already linked:

http://www.pixeldeck.net/?sfid=140&_sft_category=icons

View the source, this:
<div class="posts" id="posts" data-paged="1" style="position: relative; height: 792.952px; opacity: 1;">

Does not exist, when it should, if perhaps without any results inside.

Thanks

Anonymous

#36502

Hey Ross,

I have enabled auto count and removed any unnecessary settings (i didnt have any anyway, only categories dragged into the search form UI.

Regarding number 2), I see your point, but im not sure why #posts would be removed? I cant target that page because its technically still the blog/home page, and ive checked in index.php and #posts is definitely 100% there.

I’m stumped 😐

Anonymous

#36504

Hey, i got it to work, in the Display Results i set it to index.php as the template and it seems to work now. Now there is a problem where it doesnt load correctly, it loads in a horizontal line! haha, can you help out with THIS issue too? I would love you forever! ha

Anonymous

#36505

EDIT: I had to remove the Ajax Functionality to get it to work which is a shame. Anyway of getting it to work with Ajax and not mess up my grid?

Ross Moderator

#36657

Hey Edward

You need to find out how to initialise the JavaScript associated with your grid.

Once you know this, you can run it after every ajax request – S&F comes with an event for this found in the first question in the FAQs:

https://www.designsandcode.com/wordpress-plugins/search-filter-pro/faqs/

Hope that helps!

Thanks

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