[Steven Zahm]

@ Mandy

The issue is because the theme is including a “shim” javascript that enables features of HTML5 that IE doesn’t natively support. The placeholder text “Search” is one such feature. Unfortunately the “shim” javascript has a bug which is causing “Search” to be submitted when you select a category. Since the word “Search” does not exist in any of the entries you get no results.

The fix is simple if you have some very basic PHP editing skills. Here’s how:

Open the class.template-parts.php file found here:
../wp-content/plugins/connections/includes/template/

Go to line 469 which should be this:

$out .= '<input type="text" id="cn-search-input" name="cn-s" value="' . esc_attr( $searchValue ) . '" placeholder="' . __('Search', 'connections') . '"/>';

Now change it to this:

$out .= '<input type="text" id="cn-search-input" name="cn-s" value="' . esc_attr( $searchValue ) . '"/>';

Save and upload, overwriting the original.

That should do it.