Reply To: Search filter not working

07/04/2013 at 11:12 am #264309
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ randy1123

On the occasions I run across this it is because the theme or another plugin, usually the theme, is trying to be helpful and adds a HTML 5 “shim” javascript that adds support for the placeholder text in the search box. Unfortunately this is buggy, in my opinion. Go ahead and select a category and then look in the address bar of the browser, notice the there is cn-s=Search. The shim script is causing the placeholder text “Search” to be sent as if you were filtering by category and search for the word “Search” and it shouldn’t be. Obviously, this is not what you want to do.

Unfortunately, other than changing themes, which I would never ask someone to do, the only solution is to make a small edit to Connections so it does no longer use the placeholder text.

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

Search for this line, should be on line 466:


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

Replace it with this:


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

Save and upload overwriting the original. Of course you should make a backup first.

Now, because the placeholder text is no longer in place, the shim script from the theme will no longer affect the category filter.

Hope that helps.