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Hi damdamdam,

Unfortunately, it is not as simple as that. I am explicitly stating AND in the shortcode parameters because I only want bbpress topics that have A AND B. The problem is nothing to do with AND or OR. The query ignores multiple topic tags and just uses the first one.

I am only getting topics with A. I want topics with A AND B

Hi and thanks for the update.

I should have added that
1) I’d already created a default wordpress install and experienced the problem with the default theme
2) I am trying to get it working with bbpress as the forum software.

I suspect you are right in that it may be a bbpress/S&F interaction problem. Unfortunately that means I will have to dig deeper into the code.

Thanks again!

I read the first “sticky” post in the support forum saying “We are currently unable to offer support via these forums as all resources are dedicated to the pro version of our plugin – we literally do not have the resource…”.

I totally understands that point – got to pay the bills. I (and obviously many others) appreciate the excellent free plugin.

I am a little confused by your last reply

if you want multiple selection you’ll have to use a checkbox field or multiselect

The problem being encountered IS the use of the multiselect or checkbox. If you select more than one category/tag , the search only uses the first checked/selected entry e.g. tag A and B are selected but only entries with tag A are retrieved. This isn’t an AND/OR issue as I’ve created entries with all combinations. The search is returning more results than A AND B – all A’s are retrieved.

And FYI, the the url clearly states that it is reading both tags in the checkbox – ../forums/topic-tag/Absolute+Beginner/

If this is a restriction on the search filter then surely multiselect/checkbox is pointless?

Many thanks for the update. I’ll definitely post any workaround I find.

Thanks for replying. I’m digging into the php code and I’ll post what I find.

I think it might be related to that post i.e. “might be trying to use the same taxonomy (or category) many times?”. However, that begs the question as to the purpose of offering a checkbox option – it’s obviously going to select the same taxonomy many times. If that is a restriction then only a radio option (i.e. only 1 can be selected) should be available.

Thanks again!

This is a question for “gombroo”. The creator of this plugin is not offering support on this forum anymore and I tried to find the information referenced in the reply “I’ve replied in teh other thread :)” but drawing a blank.

Could you share the answer in this thread? I (and it seems many others) have the same problem.

Many thanks,
Geoff.

Hi Barry,

I’ll give it a go stripping out (or deactivating) each plugin but I was just wondering if you had some sort of debug setting that could be switched on. I guess not?

It works fine on another site so I don’t doubt it’s a plugin or them conflict.

Thanks!

And a bit more investigation…

1) I thought it might be a simple case of CSS making the plugin output invisible/hidden so I compared it working on another wordpress site of mine with the one that isn’t working. On the working one I viewed the generated html source and noted that the display line is:
<div class=”ab-item ab-empty-item” aria-haspopup=”true”>What The File</div>

On the failing site nothing is in the html source.

2) I modified another user to Administrator and that user didn’t get any output either.