Search/Archive Pages Not WooCommerce compliant

[oytamuah]

When a user searches for a product using the search function or goes to a specific product attribute page the theme stops behaving like a WooCommerce theme and there are no prices, or any buttons to buy the products. This is a major flaw and really takes away from the UX. Is there some quick fix to have these pages behave like normal product category pages while this is sorted?

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

You mean, search pages like this, don’t have a layout similar to shop page? http://neighborhood.swiftideas.net/?s=hi

Let me know, what you got.

Thanks,
laranz.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi there,

Can you explain what you mean, or provide an example of the product attribute page not displaying as expected?

We’ll look improving the global search results in a future update.

– Ed

[oytamuah]

Hi,

The search results page and the other archive pages need to have a ‘add to cart’ button and prices like any other page on a eCommerce site. Check this theme for example: http://demo.yithemes.com/sistina/?s=jeans&post_type=product

If this is not provided, then a user searching for a product or looking at some product archives will be confused why all of a sudden the prices/add to cart/wishlist etc were replaced with something you would see in a normal blog.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

It’s possible to do the same, see here for example: http://neighborhood.swiftideas.net/?s=case&post_type=product

Which search are you using? Maybe we can add an option for it to be a product search instead of a full site search.

– Ed

[oytamuah]

Hi Ed,

Yes that’s the type of search results style I want to show up (and also same for product attributes and other archive pages). How do I achieve this?

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

It depends what asset you’re using for the search, all you need to do is add this within the form code:

<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="product" />

– Ed

[westcoastsurf]

Where is this form code so we can add the line of code?

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi @oytamuah and @westcoastsurf,

Did you guys use this widget “WooCommerce Product Search” instead of the default WordPress search widget? That widget will search product only.

Let me know, what you got.

Thanks,
laranz.

[oytamuah]

Im talking about the general search that’s in the header. How do I get searches from that to display results in a product centric way ?

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Try this: Open up wp-content\themes\neighborhood\includes\swift-framework\sf-content-display\sf-header.php line #488 is like this

$menu_full_output .= '<li><form method="get" class="search-form" action="'.home_url().'/"><input type="text" placeholder="'.__("Search", "swiftframework").'" name="s" /></form></li>'. "\n";

change that to this.

$menu_full_output .= '<li><form method="get" class="search-form" action="'.home_url().'/"><input type="text" placeholder="'.__("Search", "swiftframework").'" name="s" /><input type="hidden" value="product" name="post_type"></form></li>'. "\n";

Let me know, what you got.

Thanks,
laranz.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Thanks Laranz, that should do it!

– Ed

[oytamuah]

Yea that solves it – thanks alot. Im guessing there’s no such easy fix for archive pages or product attribute pages?

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Can you explain what you mean, or provide an example of the product attribute page / attribute not displaying as expected?

Thanks,
laranz.

[oytamuah]

This is an example of an attribute page:

http://neighborhood.swiftideas.net/size/medium/

As you can see this doesn’t have add to cart button or price etc.