Topic Tag: Views plugin

Problem: I have 4 categories: articles, video, audio, events.
I am searching for free text "basketball".
I want the results to show:

Results for "basketball" under "articles":
article-1, article-2, article 3

Results for "basketball" under "videos":
video-1, video-2, video-3

Results for "basketball" under "audio":
audio-1, audio-2, audio-3

Results for "basketball" under "events":
event-1, event-2, event-3

Solution:
There is not a good way to split up a single custom search View this way. Instead, you could use 4 separate custom search Views, each filtered by a single term. Then you can use conditional HTML to show and hide each View based on a URL parameter.

Add this custom shortcode to inspect URL parameters:

function exists_in_repeating_url_param_func($atts) {
  $var = $atts['var'];
  $test = $atts ['test'];
  $exists = isset($_GET[$var]) ? in_array( $test, $_GET[$var] ) : 0;
  return $exists;
}
add_shortcode("exists_in_repeating_url_param", "exists_in_repeating_url_param_func");

Use it like this:

[exists_in_repeating_url_param var="wpv-post-typer" test="video"]

If the URL includes "wpv-post-typer%5B%5D=video", this shortcode will return 1. If not, the shortcode will return null. You can use the value of this shortcode to determine whether or not to display each View.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/conditional-html-output-in-views/using-shortcodes-in-conditions/

Problem:
How to display only view's search form on one page and search form and result on another page

Solution:
When you try to add your view to any page, it will give you option shown in following image:
=> https://d7j863fr5jhrr.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/choosing-a-different-page-to-display-the-results.jpg

You should select "only search box" option and then select the another page where you want to display the search result.

You can find proposed solution, in this case, with the following reply:
=> https://toolset.com/forums/topic/horizontal-search-bar/#post-617823

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/front-page-filters/#4-1-adding-the-custom-search-form-to-a-page-or-widget

Problem:
How can we create a list of Posts where only Posts of the current user are shown?

Solution:
You can add a Query Filter that says:

Select posts with the author the same as the current logged in user.

When you edit the View, you open the Query Filter "Add Filter" GUI and choose "Post Author", then "Post author is the same as the logged in user"

This will query posts as created by the currently logged in user.

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-query-by-author/