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@lujeffcoat – I see that the search still isn’t working on your site. I’m getting the same (non-existent) results with the search widget, except my state and city fields are non-responsive, empty drop-down fields both for editing and searching. Have you had any luck in troubleshooting with FireStorm?

Hi Placester,

Thanks for the explanation, but I’m still having the original problem of the search fields having no effect on the displayed listings. What you described is what I had originally done, but the results page returns all listings; there’s no filtering effect from the search parameters.

For instance:
On homepage: [search_form width=’350′ form_action_url = ‘results’][/search_form]
On Results page (slug is ‘results’): [search_listings] [/search_listings]

In case this is relevant, the URL that comes up after searching is:
…(site name)/results#/-1598626448

How do I link the [search_listings] shortcode on the results page to the homepage’s search widget (that I created)?

Oy. Now I’m trying to put a quick search widget in a sidebar & display the results on a newly-loaded page. Any hints?

Eureka! I see now that [search_listings] should go on the same page as [search_form]. Now it works!

p.s. When I click “Search Now!” the “Listings” page loads automatically, so I put the [search_listings] shortcode on that page. Is this correct?

Hi Placester,

Thanks for your quick reply. It’s hosted locally during development. The shortcodes are:

On Search page:
[search_form context=’twentyeleven’ pl_post_type = ‘pl_form’ width = ‘250’ height = ‘250’ hide_sort_by = ‘false’ hide_sort_direction = ‘false’ hide_num_results = ‘false’ radio-type = ‘state’ nb-select-state = ‘4’ animation = ‘fade’ animationSpeed = ‘800’ preview = ‘true’ ]

On Listings results page:
[search_listings context=’search_listings_twentyten’ ] [pl_filter group=”metadata” filter=”max_price” value=”650000″] [pl_filter group=”metadata” filter=”min_price” value=”1000″] [/search_listings]

I’ve also tried the plain old [search_form] and [search_listings] without success.

Am I using the shortcodes wrong? I couldn’t find any instructions on how to tie the two together, but maybe I missed something.

The funny thing is that I created a demo site on placester.com, thinking that everything would work more smoothly on your servers with your themes, but the search doesn’t work there either with the demo data. So, I’m puzzled.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!