Search Issue

[thyagoresende]

Hello,

Great theme guys! I’m running on a small issue though:
My site does not use a portfolio or a blog, but I still need a “search tool” for users to search regular pages on the site.

If it’s possible, I’d like to ask for help doing the following:

1 – How can I remove the dropdown in the search page with the blog posts & portfolios options (I’m guessing that’s somewhere in a .php file, but which one)?
2 – How can I make the search page look for text in all pages??

Thanks very much and keep up the good work! Cheers

[FocuxTheme Support]

Hi

1. You need to edit content-slidedown.php file and you will find those search options in the following codes about at line 10 – 13

  <select name="post_type" id="post_type">
                 <option value="post"><?php _e('Blog Posts','Samsara');?></option>
                 <option value="portfolio"><?php _e('Portfolios','Samsara');?></option>
                 <?php if(is_plugin_active('woocommerce/woocommerce.php')):?>
                 <option value="product"><?php _e('Products','Samsara');?></option>
                 <?php endif;?>
               </select>

2. You need to edit includes/theme-functions.php file, find the following function at line 110 – 120

add_filter( 'get_search_form', 'van_search_form' );
function van_search_form( $form ) {
    $form = '<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" class="searchform" action="' . home_url( '/' ) . '" >
    <div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s">' . __( 'Search for:','Samsara' ) . '</label>
    <input type="text" value="' . get_search_query() . '" name="s" id="s" />
	<input type="hidden" value="post" name="post_type" id="post_type" />
    <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'. esc_attr__( 'Search','Samsara' ) .'" />
    </div>
    </form>';
    return $form;
}

Look at this code in the function

<input type="hidden" value="post" name="post_type" id="post_type" />

Change to

<input type="hidden" value="page" name="post_type" id="post_type" />

Then, edit search.php, find the following codes

<?php
		    $post_types='post';
		    if(isset($_GET['post_type'])){
			    $post_types=$_GET['post_type'];
			}
			
			if($post_types=='portfolio'){
			  echo '<div class="portfolio-posts section">
			  <div class="portfolio-container">';
			  get_template_part('content','portfolios');
			  echo '</div>
			  </div>';
			}elseif($post_types=='post'){
			  $limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
			  $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
			  query_posts('post_type=post&s='.$_GET['s'].'&posts_per_page='.$limit.'&paged='.$paged);
			  get_template_part('loop','default');
			}

Change to

 $limit = get_option('posts_per_page');
			  $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
			  query_posts('post_type=page&s='.$_GET['s'].'&posts_per_page='.$limit.'&paged='.$paged);
			  get_template_part('loop','default');

I strongly suggest you can create your own child theme if you want to change the theme files, otherwise, you can’t update the theme smoothly in the future.

Thanks

[FocuxTheme Support]

If you want to completely remove the drop menu, I think you should delete all the select HTML code.

<select name="post_type" id="post_type">
               <option value="post"><?php _e('Blog Posts','Samsara');?></option>
               <option value="portfolio"><?php _e('Portfolios','Samsara');?></option>
               <?php if(is_plugin_active('woocommerce/woocommerce.php')):?>
               <option value="product"><?php _e('Products','Samsara');?></option>
               <?php endif;?>
             </select>

[thyagoresende]

Thanks, I’ve used those customs files in a child theme and the search worked great!

ps: in the content-slideshow.php what I did was just remove the dropdown menu lines, as following:

<option value="post"><?php _e('Blog Posts','Samsara');?></option>
<option value="portfolio"><?php _e('Portfolios','Samsara');?></option>
<?php if(is_plugin_active('woocommerce/woocommerce.php')):?>
<option value="product"><?php _e('Products','Samsara');?></option>

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