[Resolved] Inside a View – Search not showing on page

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[SteBlood]

I've never had a problem like this before, however I am trying to create a search within a view using the view tools.
I've created the search filters, but they refuse to show on the front end.
It's really frustrating.

Any chance you could help?
If you could make the next reply private I can share my login details to the site.

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[Nigel]

From the source markup at that link you shared, I see you are inserting the View using an Elementor widget, is that right?

We have a known issue relating to inserting a View with Elementor, described here: https://toolset.com/errata/not-possible-to-split-view-search-form-and-results-in-elementor/

Only, according to that, it's not possible to insert the search form and results separately, and both will always be shown, which is not what you are describing.

Nevertheless, can you try the suggested workaround?

Also, double check when editing your View that the Output Editor at the bottom contains both of these shortcodes:

[wpv-filter-meta-html]
[wpv-layout-meta-html]

I'll set a private reply in case you need to share log-in credentials.

[SteBlood]

Duplicated reply

[SteBlood]

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[SteBlood]

So, I've been playing around.

Basically, I've duplicated this view;
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to this view
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I've managed to get it to do what I want it to do.

My problem is, what did I do differently in hidden link

to make the search show, that I didn't do in hidden link

Does that make sense?

[SteBlood]

Your website is doing some really weird stuff right now, I am replying but they're not showing.... or taking longer than expected 'to' show.

[Shane]

Hello,

We had an issue with our forums last week, however it should be resolved now.

I can see a difference in your views, actually this view below is missing the query filters that would allow the search to work.
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See my screenshot for the missing query filters.

You do have the option to manually re-add the query filters by clicking on the Add a Filter button, searching for that taxonomy and adding the filter, setting it to filter by the URL parameter and copying the URL parameter names from the view below to your copy view.
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For this view below, you had the option "Disable the wrapping DIV around the View" which will disable the search because it removes all the generated HTML wrapping for the view.
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This should now be showing the search bar.

Thanks,
Shane

[SteBlood]

Thanks Shane!