Ultimatum / Search Results Page / Lightbulb Moment

Anonymous

#41238

I am currently using Ultimatum 2.8.9 and I don’t understand how I get this plugin to work on a search results page.

• Would I have to create a “layout” for each category for it to work (like in the blog post – https://ultimatumtheme.com/using-search-filter-pro-with-ultimatum/)?
• How would I go about getting a user to search for things and then on the “search results” page it would have the search and filter pro in the sidebar where they could filter further.

Looks like in the blog post (https://ultimatumtheme.com/using-search-filter-pro-with-ultimatum/) I would have to create layouts for every category and that’s not practical on a site with 100+ categories.

Can someone provide me a lightbulb moment?

Trevor

#41254

Hi Dan (it is Dan?)

My initial thought is to have the category as part of the search form, but hide it, and use the url to select the category. This might go a lot quicker if I knew what timezone you are in, but Skype is possible to voice chat.

Anonymous

#41270

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Trevor

#41278

You would use a small snippet of custom css with display: hidden; in it applied to that element. Not hard to do (for me anyway).

Anonymous

#41317

What are the steps I need to do then?

I can write CSS no problem, if it’s PHP it might be a bit tricky.

Thanks for your help in both forums.

Trevor

#41318

OK.

You want the ability to make a search of some sort from most site pages, but when you get to the search results be able to have a more detailed search? Let us first focus on the search result page then. Design that and get it right. Do you want people who arrive there to be fixed on a given category without the option to change it, or be able to change it? Did you want a different layout per category, or no change, or minor styling changes?

It is late for me, so tomorrow.

Anonymous

#41358

The goal for me is to have this work in two ways. First is if someone uses the normal WordPress search function. They put in a phrase, it shows the search results page with the results, and then off to the side they can then filter the results using Search and Filter Pro.

I would hope they would be able to filter by category, oldest to newest, and maybe dates. Is that not what this plugin does?

The second instance is that I want to create a filter for my archive pages. A user would click on a category name, it would take them to an archive page, they could then filter the archive by date, oldest to newest, and that’s it.

When I read the blog for Ultimatum it sounded to me like for every archive page I would need to create a template for it, create a separate search and filter form, etc. I want to be able to have one layout used for all archives and one search and filter instance. I run a site that has 100+ categories. I can’t be convinced that I would have to create a new category layout every time they create a new category. If that’s how this is set up, I may seek a refund.

I look forward to your answer. Thanks again.

Trevor

#41374

Whilst I am not perfectly clear on what you want, I think I understand and I am confident what you want can be done, but planning what will need to be done is important. Some basic questions to start with?

Are these normal WordPress ‘posts’ or a ‘Custom Post Type’? In a normal WordPress blog, WordPress has the Posts Multi page (so-called archives) as the site’s front page. Is this how you have yours set up or plan to have it set up?

Do you want to use the posts (or CPT) archives page as the detailed search page (which is how I often do it), or do you want a separate page for this, with a different layout?

From what you have articulated, special layouts will not be needed for every category, no.

Anonymous

#41599

The posts are normal WordPress posts. I have my main page set to Home Page, which is a page I created in WordPress that uses my “Home Page” layout.

As far as your next question about posts archive page as search results page, whatever it takes to get this to work as I’ve laid out above.

Do you want admin level access to poke around and see how I have things set up?

Trevor

#41617

That might be an idea, OK. Use a private reply.

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