Thanks, Trevor, your suggestion seems to work.
I’m still using your Elementor extension, so I’m putting the search form on the page with an Elementor widget.
I’m also still putting the EDD downloads on the page using the ElemEDD plugin, instead of a shortcode.
I’ve added an Elementor widget to contain the shortcode you specified above (with filter_next_query), just before the search form, and that alone seems to make it all work again. I’m adding your shortcode using an Elementor shortcode widget, not a text widget, by the way, but that doesn’t seem like it should matter much.
I’m actually putting TWO sets of downloads on the page, using two different ElemEDD widgets (they’re filtered differently, based on tags.). I found that I need to add your filter_next_query shortcode just before the second set is displayed as well (though I am only using one search form at the top of the page, not two), in order to have it also be filtered by S&F Pro.
So as far as I can tell, this is a solution, and not terribly complicated. But it does feel a little inelegant – I’ve had to add non-intuitive elements to my page, to work around a change that occcurred between S&F Pro versions 2.5.0 and 2.5.1. Not a big problem, but if you had a way of making this unnecessary, perhaps in a future version of your own Elementor support plugin, or a revison to your integration with EDD, it would feel better. Just a thought.
Thanks for the good support!
Cheers,
Howard
