Tell us what you are trying to do?
I want to create advanced search, the user to be able to choose certain choices:
1. Author(Speaker) in a drop down menu,
2. Another drop down menu to choose which Section in the site
3. Which topic
4. Field to add word or words or sentences to filter the search
Is there any documentation that you are following?
N/P
Is there a similar example that we can see?
As Amazon or other real estate sites
Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.
1. Author(Speaker) in a drop down menu,
- Are you using the post author feature where users are set as authors or have you joined the Author(Speaker) post type, through post-relationship?
2. Another drop down menu to choose which Section in the site
- What does the 'section' represent here? Do you mean to select which post types to include in the search?
3. Which topic
- If you've used category/taxonomy for topics, you can use the taxonomy search field in the search view.
4. Field to add word or words or sentences to filter the search
- You can use the text search field in the view for this, which will search through the text in the post titles and the post body/content.
As general,
I’m using Taxonomies in Toolset.
Search View is not shown at all in the page when we edit it…I can send you creds to access to see it yourself.
1. Author: I’m using a Taxonomy called “Speaker” in Toolset.
2. Section: is another Taxonomy called “Section” that through it we segregate sections of the site.
3. Topic: It’s another Taxonomy called “ Subjects” that through it the posts are categorized in the site according to the subject.
4. Nothing is shown to be able to add the field…it’s either I don’t know how to add it as a block or it’s something in the plugin that is not showing that feature.
I’ve discovered the way to add these fields above, but the page is heavy & shows the search results without clicking on Search button, how can I stop showing the results, but when the user clicks it’ll show the results according to what he searched for.
Now I’m trying to fix it, some issues are facing me please help me:
1. Showing Results: When I choose the Block to show the form & the results at the same page, it shows it without the user clicks the Button….Screenshot is below.
When I choose Form only removes the results, but it doesn’t show any results when I use the search.
Results only it hides the form.
—>> I want the form only to be shown in the page, but when the user choose & clicks on search it shows the results below the form with pagination.
2. I created Archive for the Search….I choose it to be for Search Results, but still I don’t know how to modify the appearance I want to make it this way.
- Content: …. Post link
- Author: …. Speaker
- Category: … Category
Please help me how to do fulfill this.
Thanks a lot.
4. In the view's loop editor content, I included the br tags after each taxonomy item so that the next one starts from a new line, and at the end, included an hr tag, so that a separator is added after each result item:
Highly appreciate your efforts, it’s exactly the same as I wanted.
Please last thing how to make the search be dealing with the Arabic letters that the user may write in wrong way like ا أ إ or ي ى these letters are mostly written in different ways by the users, is there a way to make the search ignore & deal with them as one?