Ross Morsali

Hi again

As mentioned at the top of the forums in the sticky, support is limited.

However, I do come on here occasionally, and fix bugs and work through issues with users’ – especially if they are the fault of the plugin.

There have been approximately 4000 downloads of S&F since the release of WP 4.4. No other users’ are experiencing issues now.

I also test on the default WP themes, 2014, 2015 and now 2016.

The plugin works in all of those when testing on clean installs.

All the data above, tells me that there is something different, something you are doing (perhaps not intentionally) that is non standard.

WP changed a bunch of things in WP 4.4, whereas S&F has almost no changes at all.

So your issue is coming from the upgrade in WP, or something else pre-existing in your setup.

I’ve no idea how you are creating your custom templates, or trying to load them, but S&F does not choose which templates to load.

WordPress does this, based on the URL

What happens when you access this URL with S&F disabled AND on WP 4.4:
http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

This URL is a WP url so if its not loading correctly with S&F disabled, then it is not a S&F issue.

Thanks

PS, you should be using the template hierarchy to load your custom templates:
https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

If you don’t choose a post type, the default used is regular posts.

It sounds like you have some custom code somewhere that is changing the post type – something like pre_get_posts that is modifying the post type of your queries, or the search page.

Thanks

Actually looking at trying to integrate the default WP anchor properties into this plugin… 🙂

Still not sure if it can be done but that would be ideal.

Thanks

Hi there

I took a look at your site the other day, and I saw the issue is not with S&F.

If you do a search you end up with a URL like:

http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

Well, when you had upgraded, S&F was producing this kind of URL correctly – but, the layout and results of this page was incorrect.

I can tell you, this page:

http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

Is actually not controlled at all by Search & Filter – this layout is controlled by your theme.

If you disable S&F now (please try it) and access this URL:

http://www.centralflorida55plus.com/amenity/bocce-ball-courts/

You will see it is still behaving as it should.

If you upgrade again, and disable S&F, you will find problems with this page.

This to me looks like an issue with your theme not being WP 4.4 compatible or another plugins/custom code.

Thanks

Hey there

You must edit the archive template that is being used to display your results and add in the shortcode for the search form.

S&F always redirects to a results page, so its up to you to get hte layout of the archive page matching the layout of the current page the search is being performed on.

S&F pro allows you to use a shortcode to position results, so you can actually have all your search functionality displaying on one specific page.

Thanks

This is possible in pro 🙂

Can you link your ticket here and I’ll take a look at it?

Thanks