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Hi
On this site: https://gymogturn.no/nyheter/
We have stickied a post that shows up first, but when we filter on a category the post is not in, we want it to dissapear.
How to do this?
Hi Sigurd
After scratching my head I managed to figure out the issue.
We perform our search outside of the regular WP_Query, so if you choose a category in our search form, WP doesn’t actually “know” its restrciting to a specific category, because our search does that, so WP appends the stick post…
I’ve managed to come up with some code, that add the WP category to the WP_Query (even though our plugin has already restricted the posts to this category), but now WP also knows that at a category restriction is happening, and excludes the sticky:
add_filter("sf_edit_query_args", "add_wp_category_to_query", 100, 2);
function add_wp_category_to_query($query_args, $sfid){
//if($sfid == 1234){ //you can restrict this behaviour to a search form ID
//get user category selection from the search form (ie, detect which categories have been selected)
global $searchandfilter;
$query_data = $searchandfilter->get($sfid)->current_query();
$query_data_array = $query_data->get_array();
if(isset($query_data_array['_sft_category'])){
$category_values = $query_data_array['_sft_category']['active_terms'];
$current_category_ids = array(); //this will contain all the IDs of the categories that have been selected in the search form
foreach($category_values as $category){
array_push($current_category_ids, $category['id']);
}
//restrict query to WP category
$query_args['category__in'] = $current_category_ids;
}
//}
return $query_args;
}As there may be some small overhead when implementing this code, you can uncomment the first if( line, and restrict this to a specific search form / query.
I hope that makes sense & works!
Best