Filter against custom taxonomy

Actually it’s now possible with the 2.0 version 🙂

On the new demo site you can see a WooCommerce example, where the results are filtered by product categories (which is a custom taxonomy)

If you already bought the search earlier, you can download it again from codecanyon.

If you haven’t and you need to check the compatibility with another plugin, you can let me know here. This site is still a little messy, I can hopefully make a pre-sales question form soon 🙂

Im running into a problem. I NEED the taxonomy to SHOW UP as the SEARCH RESULT and be clickable. How do I accomplish this?

Hi!

Not possible in the current plugin state. I’m looking for a solution if there is an easy way to achieve this by modifications. Actually returning taxonomies as search results is maybe an extra 100 lines of code or less. The problem is to fabricate the url, where these results would lead the user. Apparently the url structure is something like yoursite.com/index.php?taxonomy_name=the-taxonomy-name but I can’t confirm this works 100%.

Let me check if I can make a modification to return custom taxonomies on my test server 🙂

Good news. If you want to show the taxonomy terms in the result I have a working solution. You will need to open up the plugins/ajax-search-pro/search.php file and go to line 141, where you should see this:

$params = array('data'=>$search['data'], 'options'=>$search['options']);

After this line, instert the following code:

/* Extra for searching custom taxonomies */
function _getAllTaxonomies() {
  $args = array(
    'public'   => true,
    '_builtin' => false
    
  ); 
  $output = 'names'; // or objects
  $operator = 'and'; // 'and' or 'or'
  $taxonomies = get_taxonomies( $args, $output, $operator ); 
  return $taxonomies;
}

function _getLikeTerms($name) {
  $taxonomies = _getAllTaxonomies();
  $terms = array();
  foreach ($taxonomies as $taxonomy) {
     $terms[$taxonomy] = get_terms($taxonomy, array(
        'orderby' => 'name',
        'name__like' => $name
     ));
  }
  return $terms;
} 

$_like_terms = _getLikeTerms($s);
$_termres = array();

foreach ($_like_terms as $taxonomy=>$terms) {
  foreach ($terms as $term) {
    //var_dump($term);
    $_termo = new stdClass();
    $_termo->id = $term->term_id;
    $_termo->content = "";
    $_termo->title = $term->name;
    $_termo->date  = "";
    $_termo->author = ""; 
    $_termo->image = "";
    $_termo->link = get_term_link( $term, $term->taxonomy );
    
    $_termres[] = $_termo;
  }
}
$allpageposts = array_merge($allpageposts, $_termres);  
/* END  Extra for searching custom taxonomies */

And that’s it. Not sure how efficient this is, but this should work 🙂

Our custom taxonomies structure is http://DOMAIN.com/stores/taxonomy-name

The stores is constant and the stores/taxonomyname

I have my developer implimenting it right now.

You can turn off the search in posts, search in pages options on the backend, on the general options tab. But if you dont need those options it’s faster to add the following lines after the code I provided earlier:

    print_r(json_encode($_termres));

    die(); 

This will make the search ignore everything after printing the category results – will make it somewhat faster.
You probably want to get rid of the settings box as well, it’s not needed for this kind of search. The best was to do this is by turning off everything on the “FRONTEND SEARCH SETTINGS” panel and after saving the options, the settings box will disappear from the frontend.