Having trouble using WP Legisearch on static home page

That’s an interesting one. Not sure if there’s an elegant solution (even if re-writing the code of the plugin), but here’s a hacky workaround. This will break the plugin for normal operations but allow it to work with a static front page:

1. Create a new page called “Results” and leave it blank. Make sure the permalink is “results”
2. Open wp-content/plugins/wp-legisearch/public/functions.php
3. Replace line 136 with the following:
$html .= ‘<input type=”hidden” name=”legisearch_base_url” value=”‘ . get_permalink() . ‘/results/’ . ‘” />’;

If you want to call it something besides Results, just change the ‘/results/’ in step 3 with the correct permalink.

In the meantime, I’ll try to think of a better long-term solution for the next release.

That worked! You rock! Thanks very much for your quick reply and detailed solution…

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~ Linton

Glad I could help. Thanks for the interesting problem.

Hi Dan,

I had a similar problem to Linton, and I tried your solution, but I got a Parse error.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘type’ (T_STRING) in /home/pennsy8/public_html/[website-name]/wp-content/plugins/wp-legisearch/public/functions.php on line 136

Do you know why this might be?

I figured it out, but now my Google maps is not appearing.

This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.