Title: Single variable selection problem – permalinks?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Single variable selection problem – permalinks?

 *  Resolved [swissmissmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissmissmi/)
 * (@swissmissmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/)
 * Awesome plugin. Could easily be a paid plugin! You are rocking it.
 * My issue is regarding the loss of the post archive under the following conditions:
 * I have three custom taxonomies set up (ex. size, color, brand), all set to display
   as checkboxes, and each with an “or” operator. Everything works great when there
   is at least a single variable selected in each of 2 or more of the field types.
   The result is something like this:
    /?post_types=hats&color=pink&brand=kangol
   Or /?post_types=hats&color=pink,blue&brand=kangol,woolrich
 * The problem is when only a single variable is selected in a single field. In 
   this example, I’d expect to see all pink hats:
    /?post_types=hats&color=pink
 * But instead I get the following url and an error, or a single post where there
   should be a list of more than a single result:
    /colors/pink/?post_types=hats
 * Should I set my permalinks up differently?
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-filter/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ross Morsali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsandcode/)
 * (@designsandcode)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/#post-4590322)
 * Hey swissmissmi
 * The functionality you are talking about is default of WP.
 * If you disable the plugin and go to
 *     ```
       /?color=pink
       ```
   
 * WP rewrites will automatically send you to
 *     ```
       /color/pink/
       ```
   
 * As far as I can tell, there are two things you can do:
 * 1. If color is a custom taxonomy, create a seperate template for this archive
   page in your theme that matches your search results page (or whatever template
   you want to be loaded) – Look for “Custom Taxonomies display” – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy)
 * 2. Override the WP redirects so that it doesn’t do it – but I find this stuff
   very confusing and requires a lot of trial an error – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API)
 * There is one thing I need to add…
 * If you use category in your field lists, this plugin will always rewrite the 
   URL (in addition to WP behaviour) so it looks like this:
 *     ```
       /category/beans/
       ```
   
 * In this case you would need to modify your category template to work how you 
   want – or duplicate the search template again…
 * I did this so that URLs are cleaner however I can see this may be triggering 
   the loading of the wrong templates for users so might add this in as optional
   in a future version.
 * Let me know how you get on.
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [swissmissmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swissmissmi/)
 * (@swissmissmi)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/#post-4590359)
 * Thanks for the quick reply!
 * I changed permalink settings to default settings (/?p=123) and it works correctly.
   So, hmmm. I’ll keep you posted!
 *  Plugin Author [Ross Morsali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsandcode/)
 * (@designsandcode)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/#post-4590374)
 * No worries swissmissmi, I personally like my permalinks so wouldn’t do that…!
   If you like the layout of the search results page I would copy my “search.php”(
   in my theme folder) and name it “taxonomy-color.php” – the search template will
   then be used to display the color taxonomy, which I think is what you are wanting
   to do!
 * Good luck anyway.
 *  [robi333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robi333/)
 * (@robi333)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/#post-4590433)
 * Hi,
    I have the same problem as swissmissmi. I made a custom taxonomy called 
   color. If I change permalink settings to default settings (/?=123) all is fine
   another way nothing is found as result of custom taxonomy searching. I use theme
   PressWork which has only index.php file to show template. As I understood I could
   name your file search-filter.php to “taxonomy-color.php” and copy it to theme
   PressWork. Is it right? Anyway your plugin is great! Thanks,

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 * [filter](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/filter/)
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 * Last reply from: [robi333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robi333/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/single-variable-selection-problem-permalinks/#post-4590433)
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