'All Product Categories' searches not working as expected

Hey mozdt, I’m not sure what the issue is exactly but I’m doing some woocommerce dev at the moment so will give this a test in the next few days and come back to you ??

That would be great, thanks!

P.S. is there any way to change the default ‘All…’ dropdown (i.e. ‘All Categories’) so that you can choose to put a custom ‘Select a category’, ‘Select a designer’ etc instead?

Hey mozdt

There is some undocumented functionality (I haven’t had time to update the docs yet) which allows you to do this – all_items_labels

Use like:

[searchandfilter fields="search,post_tag,category" all_items_labels=",All Tags,All Categories"]

??

Absolutely. Brilliant.

That solves the problem for this specific site – I’ll just use all_items_labels=”Select a category…,Select a designer…”

Thanks again!

Hey mozdt, I’ve managed to have a look at this… I don’t actually use the plugin with Woocommerce but just been testing now…

So basically, you have product categories, and when you don’t select one (ie “all product categories”) you don’t get the products page?

If this is the case I think its an easy fix…

The way the plugin works is to append all the search terms to the url, but when you don’t select anything (ie “all”) the url is basically blank and defaults to your homepage or some other unwanted template…

What happens if you do a blank search, and then add

?post_type=product
//or
&post_type=product

to your URL?

Does that bring you to the default shop page (ie with a blanks search)?

If so… I can do a quick update and add a parameter to the shortocde to specify if it is a woocommerce widget which will then add “post_type=product” to blank searches ??

Okay, just done some tests.

A blank search at the moment is this:

https://localhost/devsite/?s=

Which results in ‘Sorry, no content matched your criteria.’.

If I change it to this:

https://localhost/devsite/?post_type=product

or this:

https://localhost/devsite/?s=&post_type=product

I get all categories displayed. ??

But, if I do a search for ‘designer 1’ and leave the category as ‘select a category’, at the moment I get this:

https://localhost/devsite/designer/designer-1/

And an error 404 page. Adding either pieces of code to the above url still results in a 404 error.

So, if I add the code and leave everything blank it works, but not when leaving the category blank and selecting a designer.

Hope that makes sense!

Hey mozdt, yeah that makes sense

Would you be able to show me what the URL looks like when searching by designer and leaving the product category blank (and returning the actual search results you wanted)?

Would it be something like

https://localhost/devsite/designer/designer-1/?post_type=product

or

https://localhost/devsite/shop/?designer=designer-1

or any other URL that works would really help ??

Thanks

No problem.

First, this is the url if I leave category blank and the designer blank:

https://localhost/devsite/?s=

That gives me ‘Sorry, no content matched your criteria.’.

Next, searching a category (in this case ‘accessories’) and leaving the designer blank I get this url:

https://localhost/devsite/?product_cat=accessories

That returns all the products in that category.

Now, if I search the same category for ‘designer 1’ I get this url:

https://localhost/devsite/?product_cat=accessories&pa_designer=designer-1

That shows the products only for ‘designer 1’ in ‘accessories’.

Next, I leave the categories blank with just ‘designer 1’ selected – this is the url:

https://localhost/devsite/designer/designer-1/

That gives me a 404 error, as does searching just for ‘designer 2’.

I’ve tried adding…

?s=&post_type=product

and

?post_type=product

to the url but no dice – I just get a ‘404 page not found’ error.

Does that make sense?

Hey mozdt

What happens when you go to this URL

https://localhost/devsite/designer/designer-1/?post_type=product

?

I get this error:

Not found, error 404
The page you are looking for no longer exists. Perhaps you can return back to the site’s homepage and see if you can find what you are looking for. Or, you can try finding it by using the search form below.

I’ve also just tried this:

https://localhost/devsite/designer/designer-1/?s=&post_type=product

But get the same error.

If its any help, just clicking on an ordinary category (in this case, accessories) from the homepage gives this url:

https://localhost/devsite/?dppage=1&product_cat=accessories

Cool thanks will try to look at again in the next couple of days ??

No problem, happy to help (and thanks for helping). ??

Hey mozdt haven’t forgotten about you ?? going to look in the next couple of days – I’m keen to get this working with woocommerce!

No problem mate, didn’t want to harass you constantly as its something I can sort of work around for the time being but I’d be interested in testing any beta builds if you want – just shout. ??