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  • Richard L McCollam II
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 4:52 pm #54723

    I just purchased this plugin yesterday and after some playing around with it I am wondering if what I want to do is possible, or if there is a way to set it up the way it needs to be.

    What I am trying to accomplish has to do with this page – http://potatogoodness.staging.wpengine.com/recipes/. It is an archive page for a custom post type. I want to add filters, from ACF fields, underneath the search form and update the results via ajax.

    Can this be added to my already existing code, or can I duplicate this page through the plugin somehow to achieve this?

    Hoping I can be pointed in the right direction here since I haven’t been able to figure it out so far.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 5:23 pm #54730

    It probably can be done. What theme is it? It seems to be using masonry?

    Richard L McCollam II
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 5:25 pm #54731

    It’s a custom theme I am building. The archive page for recipes does use isotope to get the masonry type feel to it.

    I just need help understanding how to integrate the plugin on this page and get it to affect the results.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 5:33 pm #54732

    Dos the template feed arguments to the wp_query, like this:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

    Richard L McCollam II
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 5:35 pm #54733

    it uses the template naming of archive-cpt-name.php so I am not directly passing arguments through wp_query.

    I could just make it a custom page template where I run my own query where I can control the arguments passed through if need be.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 5:44 pm #54734

    Indeed. At some point the template MUST be using wp_query, else how does it fetch the posts?

    I must admit that, on the one hand I admire the use of hand made templates (and the skill and hard work involved), but I can’t help but think it is a lot of hard work compared to buying a theme or theme framework.

    Richard L McCollam II
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 6:09 pm #54741

    I am pretty much wanting to duplicate this functionality (http://potatogoodness.staging.wpengine.com/recipes/), but use the plugin to actually change the search query as oppose to hiding/showing posts with jqeury toggles.

    You can expand advanced search and then select a Cuisine to see the basic filtering happening now.

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 6:20 pm #54742

    Well, given that yuo have hand written this theme, you can add the form using the shortcode in php with a do_shortcode function and then you need a wp_query with the args and one of those can be the S&F form ID.

    Richard L McCollam II
    (Private)  August 16, 2016 at 7:19 pm #54744

    What specific argument is the form ID?

    Trevor Moderator
    (Private)  August 17, 2016 at 10:20 am #54812

    Like this:

    $args = array(
  'post_type' => 'resources',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => '10',
  'search_filter_id' => '456'
);
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