Add tag/category/taxonomy to results page

[Miguel]

Hi Ernest,

I want to include some banners on the results page and those banners will depend on the search category by the user. So if the user search “CARS EVENTS”, he will get banners related to cars and if he chooses “MOTORCYCLES EVENTS” he will get banners related to motorcycles in the results page

As banners can be included as widgets in my theme, I thought maybe I could filter them by adjusting the visibility of the widget with the wordpress visibility options. But for this I need to attach some kind of tag or category or something to the results page to difference one from the other.

Do you have any idea of how we could do this? Maybe using my method or another idea that you can come up with?

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Miguel.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi Miguel,

Are the ‘MOTORCYCLES EVENTS’ and ‘CARS EVENTS’ search phrases or part of the filter? (I can’t check, as the site is under construction, and not accessible)

The only possibility I can think of is running a custom code within the results page, that checks the phrase/filter value, and print the banner based on that. I am not sure if this is possible without custom coding.

[Miguel]

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[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi!

Sorry for the late response, we were on a short family vacation.

Okay, I see how it looks now. I think the best idea in this case is to use a custom code in the search results page to recognize which search instance are the results coming from. I am not sure if there are any widget plugins or anything else available that makes this possible without coding though.

I would use something like this in the search.php file in the theme directory:

if ( $_GET['p_asid'] == 5 ) {
   // The results coming from the car search, put any custom code here
} else {
   // The results coming from the motorcycle search or somewhere else, put any custom code here
}

This way you can differenciate between where the results are originating from.

[Miguel]

Hi Ernest, no worries, I saw you were on vacation. Hope you enjoyed.

A friend found the way to solve this problem, so it’s ok!

Talk soon, best regards,
Miguel.

[Ernest Marcinko]

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