'/?s=' Appears in URL for Empty Searches

A temporary fix I have found is to replace the ‘/?s=’ in line 1040 in “of-admin.php.”

So this:

$this->urlparams .= “/?s”;

becomes this:

$this->urlparams .= “category/search/”;

Replace “category/search/” with the page where all of your posts are, unfiltered.

Hey Power Design

Yeah this part is appended to the URL for a blank search to let wordpress know a search was performed.

Without this, a blank search would just return the homepage of a site, and this is often not what a user expects.

Glad to see you managed to figure it out ??

Any chance for a future update to have a field in the settings panel to change the URL, so I don’t have to change the code manually after every time the plugin updates? ??

Thank you very much for your quick response! Your plugin is a tremendous help, and very easy to use!

Hey Power Design

Yeah this shouldn’t be so hard to implement so I’ll see what I can do…

I’m working on a premium version at the moment which allows a lot more functionality and has a proper admin interface for creating the search form so that I can more easily add new functionality without bloating the shortcode.

I think thought that this is still possible with the free version but the more complex the plugin gets, the more need there is for a nice admin UI which is what I’m bringing to the premium version.

If you’re interested in the premium version drop us your email here:

https://www.designsandcode.com/contact

Hey,
I would like to fix it up too, as explained by Power Design,
but in my actual version (1.2.4) of search & filter, there is no line “1040” in of-admin.php (164 lines for me in this file), and this string : “$this->urlparams .= “/?s”;” is not findable in the plugin …
any help ? tks

Ah, that’s because I told you the wrong file. Try looking in “search-filter.php” instead. Sorry!

Firstly thank you for such a great plugin – I have a similar problem but the above does not solve it. I do not have any posts in categories and am using custom posts

My co is “stock” – is there a solution that would allow me to have no search terms return a non filtered page

Is site.com/stock

Yup follow Power Designs instructions above, and change the line referenced to

$this->urlparams .= "stock/";

for your setup ??

Hey all ??

I just updated the plugin to include this functionality so please check for the update ?? Check the changelog.

Use it like this:

[searchandfilter fields="search,post_tag,category" empty_search_url="https://www.yoursite.com/"]

So whenever a blank search is performed, the URL will redirect to the one you have put in empty_search_url! It has to be the full URL not relative, which gives flexibility to going to another domain if desired.

If you like the plugin please leave a rating it would be much appreciated.