Values from custom fields not being found

Anonymous

#31588

Hello. I have tried several display post options in the S & F Pro, but all including the ‘Using a shortcode’ do not find the posts based on values within custom fields.

I have set the form up to use the following fields: search, categories (‘or’ relationship), and submit. Even if I use the basic search and submit, it is not working.

If I leave the keyword search blank, and select a category that shows it has post counts, search results are 0.

Post types are: built in Posts, Pages and my custom post Activities.

Test build site here: http://scienceforaustralia.com/

Please help as this is getting very frustrating.

Ross Moderator

#31591

Hi Alison

It simply looks like you didn’t fill out your Results URL correctly

Thanks

Anonymous

#31593

Hi Ross.

Please look here: http://scienceforaustralia.com/search-and-filter/?_sft_category=agricultural-and-veterinary

You will see that there are 2 posts under the category ‘agricultural-and-veterinary’, but they don’t show.

When I use the keyword ‘Econnect’ which is in one of the posts under the category, it doesn’t find it either.

I have double checked the Results URL and it displays as per the documentation.

Ross Moderator

#31594

Hi Alison

That seems to be working better now (as in there isn’t a 404).

But you’re right obviously there seems to be an issue with the actual results.

Do you have auto count enabled? If not, can you enable it?

Thanks

Anonymous

#31595

Hi Ross. Yes, just enabled auto count, but now it is not showing any categories?

However, I have the native categories widget displayed just below the S&F search widget in left-hand sidebar, there are custom posts under these categories.

Ross Moderator

#31597

Hi Alison

The reason for using auto count is to get an idea what is going on under the hood – auto count is the most accurate way to see what S&F is seeing.

So when there are no categories, it means S&F is not finding any results with categories under the current conditions.

There are 2 things that could be happening –

1) Your settings are causing conflicts with your results. This actually happens quite a lot.

Check the Post Meta tab and the Tags, Categories and Taxonomies tab – clear out all and any settings here – do you get results?

Check the Posts tab, are you using any post meta for sort order? If so, use defaults settings.

2) The Search & Filter cache is not being built – which we can look into once we exhaust the above options.

Thanks

Anonymous

#31598

Thanks Ross for your help with this. Everything is clear – nothing set under Advanced, Post Meta, Tags, Cats & Taxonomies. Under Posts, I have only ‘Published’ selected.

To display the custom fields on my site, I am using this function:

add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'query_post_type');
function query_post_type($query) {
  if(is_category() || is_tag()) {
    $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
	if($post_type)
	    $post_type = $post_type;
	else
	    $post_type = array('post', 'activity'); // activity is custom post type
    $query->set('post_type',$post_type);
	return $query;
    }
}

If I go to the shortcode results page: http://scienceforaustralia.com/search-and-filter/
it lists all the posts as ‘All categories’.

Ross Moderator

#31599

Hey Alison

I think you might have hit the nail on the head.

pre_get_posts will likely be modifying the search queries.

What happens when you remove this code, and any other pre_get_posts you might have?

Thanks

Anonymous

#31600

Hi Ross. I have just removed the added function(s) that were displaying my custom fields on my site. However, it has not cured the S&F issue. See here still: http://scienceforaustralia.com/search-and-filter/

If I enable Auto Count, it still shows no categories. I I disable it, it shows that there are in fact categories, but they are not being displayed.

Ross Moderator

#31685

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