[Resolved] Search Results Pagination

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[CharlesB2907]

This should all be in a single tutorial (not fragmented) and specific to a third party theme (if they are compatible) and not Bootstrap oriented with vague third party theme work around fragments.

This should not have to be a constant back and forth.

[Shane]

Hi Charles,

All thats needed right here is to check the Pagination and Slider settings checkbox and the Pagination and Slider settings will show up.

Then you can following my settings in the screenshot that was provided in my post above.

Thanks,
Shane

[Shane]

Hi Charles,

I admit that our Documentation should be a more user friendly and easier to understand.

I will ensure that I communicate your concern to our documentation team.

Thanks,
Shane

[CharlesB2907]

I want to be perfectly clear, I pass no judgment on the human support staff. For the most part, I have had great support experience. I see exciting possibility for Toolset integrated projects.

However, the Toolset documentation and tutorials are a complete disaster and failed me, nearly in total, as a resource!!!

[CharlesB2907]

Shane,

Progress! Thank you. I have it set to display 4 items to a page (a single row of 4).

However:

1. Why do ANY results display on the first load of the form? Results should be blank, not pre-loaded.

2. I am not clear as to where to get and embed the shortcode for the pagination page navigation.

Please advise - thank you.

[CharlesB2907]

IE is still pre-loading ALL of the listings without being searched for and completely ignoring the pagination of 4 items per page.

[Shane]

Hi Charles,

In order to get your search form to be blank, you must separate the search form itself from the results.

To do this you will need to create a page to hold the results.

Now wen you are inserting the search onto a page you will get the option if you want to add the search form only or results only or both.

What you need to do is add the form only and then on another page add the results.

Then from there the onscreen instructions will guide you on how to connect them.

Please let me know if this is clear.

Thanks,
Shane

[CharlesB2907]

I do not believe that it will be as easy as you described based on pure experience. You provide a summary of a task, right before "weekend mode" with no documentation to back it up? What I have learned to expect.

I had them separated and another agent told me to put them back together, all along while stating clearly from the beginning what my objective was. The expected runaround.

Assuming that this is going to as be problematic, and assuming that support is now in weekend mode, is that ANY documentation that might help me with this, as there has been NO experience thus far of anything going smoothly?

[CharlesB2907]

What no one seems to be able to explain to me for my understanding, is why the form displays results when there was no search query entered?

What is the "Results" displaying results of.... if there was no search entered into the form?

Perhaps if I had an answer to the question it would help me to understand the big picture of the matter.

I have a static page titled search results. Now, I remove the results code from the Homepage and place it in "Divi" module on the new static results page and then this will work??

Ask for step by step instructions because the only other recourse is onviously pure trial and error.

[CharlesB2907]

I have both codes in two locations, 1. the Homepage and 2. the Product page template.

Am I guessing correctly that I should remove the "Results" code from both and have on the one results code in the static results page??

[CharlesB2907]

I doubt that anyone on your side is concerned that I am close to being fired from this development project because of the time this is taking.

I accept the blame for wanting to stick with it to completion.

[CharlesB2907]

Attempting this on my own, purely by trial and error. The pagination setting that I created earlier did not save in the View page. There was no Update button enabled so I assumed it would save automatically but when I when back to the page to attempt the "code separation" you mentioned, I discovered that it had not saved and I have no reason to believe that it will do so this time.

And, of course, there is no documentation that I can follow AND you're now in "weekend mode"

[Shane]

Hi Charles,

There is another option. We can wrap the entire section in a conditional that checks for a URL parameter and if it is set then the results will display.

On your Loop editor, wrap your content inside the <wpv-loop></wpv-loop> with this shortcode.

[wpv-conditional if="('[wpv-search-term param='wpv_filter_submit']' ne '')"]

your content here

[/wpv-conditional]

Please try this and let me know if it helps.

Thanks,
Shane

[CharlesB2907]

Hi Shane,

I have to retract my previous post of this. The pagination settings did save. I also add the code you just provided but I 'm going to remove it because I do not believe I added it to the correct location.

There are so many moving fragments on at play here and by being new to this platform, I do not know how to help myself beyond this point.

[Shane]

Hi Charles,

I Know it can be a bit difficult, thats why we are here to assist 🙂

Let me know what's next here .

Thanks,
Shane