Ajax live search dropdown with Flatsome theme

Hi!
I’ve noticed that the live search functionality of the Flatsome theme does not find translated content. I’ve looked into the code and found out that Flatsome provides a filter to add search results to the live search, called flatsome_ajax_search_function. Now I just need a function to get search results out of the translated products/posts base. I noticed that translatePress extends the standard wordpress query, but this only works for the main query, not for auxiliary ones. There seems to be a workaround built in with the trp_force_search filter, and I was able to get it work with that, but my solution seems not to be so elegant.

I added this to functions.php:

$dartrax_force_search;

add_filter('flatsome_ajax_search_function', function() {
	return 'dartrax_live_search';
}, 10, 2 );
function dartrax_live_search($search_query, $args, $defaults) {	
	global $dartrax_force_search;

	$dartrax_force_search = true;
	$posts = get_posts($args);
	$dartrax_force_search = false;

	return $posts;
}

add_filter('trp_force_search', function() {	
	global $dartrax_force_search;
	return $dartrax_force_search;
});

Could you please take a look at my approach and tell me how to do it not the hacky way? Is there a trp search function that I can use instead of that force_search filter thing?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by dartrax.