Hi,
I think there might be actually two possible causes:
1. Make sure that the search override is enabled: https://i.imgur.com/viRLn6S.png
In this case however I don’t think that is going to solve the issue by itself.
2. The issue with the code is that there is a duplicate query executed, which cannot be overridden by ajax search pro, on this line:
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );This is not neccessary, as when the execution gets to search.php file, the search results are already parsed, no need to query again.
Simply the have_posts() and the_posts() calls should be made, without the query object.
I’ve made a correction to your code, but I have not tested it, please be careful. This is what it should look like:
Best,Ernest Marcinko
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