Custom search to display results within same page

I am using the Easy Digital Downloads plugin to sell my music.

I would like to add a custom search form inside the downloads archive page so the results will be displayed on that page.

For example, if you'll go to storename.com/downloads and search for 'whatever', you'll find all the songs that contain 'whatever' in their title.

So, inside the archive-download.php file I added:

div class="search-in-store"

form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" class="searchform" action="?php echo home_url( '/downloads/' ); ?"
div
label class="screen-reader-text" for="find"Search for:/label
input type="text" value="" name="find" id="find" /
input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="download" /
input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" /
/div
/form        


?php
if ( isset( $_REQUEST[ 'find' ] ) ) {
// run search query
query_posts( array(
's' = $_REQUEST[ 'find' ],
             'post_type' = $_REQUEST[ 'download' ],
             'paged' = $paged
             )
          );

        // loop
        if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
            // loop through results here
        endwhile; endif;

        // return to original query
        wp_reset_query();
    }
?       

/div

but the problem is that when I'm searching for something, the url changed but the page displays the same content (it didn't filter anything).

https://www.storename.com/downloads/?find=lovepost_type=download

I would like to url above to display ONLY the products with 'love' but it keeps showing all the products.

Any help will be much appreciated. Thank you

Topic forms customization Wordpress search

Category Web


I think you need to modify the code to display the content as of now you are not displaying anything in side loop.

<?php
if ( isset( $_REQUEST[ 'find' ] ) ) {
// run search query
query_posts( array(
's' => $_REQUEST[ 'find' ],
             'post_type' => $_REQUEST[ 'download' ],
             'paged' => $paged
             )
          );

        // loop
        if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
            // 
?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title();?> </a>
<?php 

        endwhile; endif;

        // return to original query
        wp_reset_query();
    }
?>       

Please check if this helps you

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