Profile: tipinoncomuni

Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to start their archive search with an empty result page first, then display the results after a search has been made.

Solution:

You can do this by using our conditionals to check for URL parameter that would appear after the search has been done.

Have a look at this example below.

[wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-search-term param='wpv_view_count']' ne '' )"]
    <ul class="wpv-loop js-wpv-loop">
        <wpv-loop>
            <li>[wpv-post-body view_template="loop-item-in-cars"]</li>
        </wpv-loop>
    </ul>
    <!-- wpv-loop-end -->
[/wpv-conditional]

We are using the [wpv-conditional if="( '[wpv-search-term param='wpv_view_count']' ne '' )"] shortcode to check if the [wpv-search-term param='wpv_view_count'] shortcode is empty. If this 'wpv_view_count' shortcode is not in the url then it would mean a search has not yet been done.

This way we can use this to hide the results unless a search has been done.