How to make a custom search template for custom taxonomy?

I have created the custom post type "truck" with custom post type ui plugin. I then created a couple of custom taxonomies "make" and "model". I am using Advanced Custom Fields in the templates to display the output the way I want it. I have everything looking and working the way I want it to.. almost.

I am using the plugin search filter to allow for filtering by custom taxonomy. So where I am getting hung up is when I try to filter results I have each taxonomy directed at an archive page I created but it is just displaying all results each time. My guess is I have messed up my query somehow but I'm not sure. My code is below, any help appreciated, thanks

This is the archive page to display all listings.

    ?php /* Template Name: TruckArchive */ ?


?php get_header(); ?

div id="container" class="truck-archive"
div class="title-container"
    h1 class="truck-title"?php the_title(); ?/h1
/div
    div class="row"
        div class="col-md-9"
            div id="content" role="main"

                ?php if ( have_posts() ) : the_post; ?
                    ?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?

                    ?php endwhile; ?

                    ?php endif; wp_reset_postdata(); ?

                    !-- new query ----- --

                    ?php 
                    // Example for adding WP PageNavi to a new WP_Query call
                    $paged = get_query_var('paged') ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
                    $args = array('post_type' = 'truck', 'posts_per_page' = 10, 'paged' = $paged);
                    $mytrucks = new WP_Query( $args );
                    while ( $mytrucks-have_posts() ) : $mytrucks-the_post(); ?
                       div class="col-md-12 panel panel-default"
                    div class="col-md-4 thumb title"
                        ?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?
                           a href="?php the_permalink(); ?" title="?php the_title_attribute(); ?" 
                           ?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?
                           /a
                         ?php endif; ?
                    /div
                    div class="col-md-4"
                    h5?php the_title(); ?/h5
                        ?php echo custom_field_excerpt(); ?
                        ul
                            libStock #:/b ?php the_field('stock_number'); ?/li
                            libEngine Manufacturer:/b ?php the_field('engine_manufacturer'); ?/li
                            libEngine Type:/b ?php the_field('engine_type'); ?/li
                            libHorsepower:/b ?php the_field('horsepower'); ?/li
                            libTransmission:/b ?php the_field('transmission'); ?/li
                        /ul   
                    /div
                    div class="col-md-4"
                    h4Price: $?php the_field('price'); ?/h4
                        div contact-info-archive
                            spanTitle/spanbr
                            addressAddress/address
                            spanPhone:Phone Number/spanbrbr
                            a href="?php the_permalink(); ?" title="?php the_title_attribute(); ?" class="btn btn-default"Learn More/a
                        /div          
                    /div
                /div
                ?php   endwhile; ?
                div class="row"
                    div class="col-md-12 text-left"
                        ?php wp_pagenavi( array( 'query' = $mytrucks ) ); ?
                    /div
                /div

                !-- new query end --
            /div!-- #content --
        /div
        div class="col-md-3 search-filter"
            div class="panel panel-default"
            h4Narrow Your Search/h4
                ?php echo do_shortcode( '[searchandfilter taxonomies="model,make"]' ); ?
            /div

        /div
    /div
/div!-- #container --


?php get_footer(); ?

This is the custom taxonomy page "taxonomy-model.php"

?php
include('archive-truck.php');
 ?

This is the custom search results page I am trying to get to display all search results for all custom taxonomies archive-truck.php

    ?php get_header(); ?

div id="container" class="truck-archive"
div class="title-container"
    h1 class="truck-title"Search Results/h1
/div
    div class="row"
        div class="col-md-9"
            div id="content" role="main"

                    ?php $mytrucks = new WP_Query(array(
                            'post_type' = 'truck'
                    )); ?
                ?php while ($mytrucks-have_posts()) : $mytrucks-the_post();  ?
                div class="col-md-12 panel panel-default"
                    div class="col-md-4 thumb title"
                        ?php if ( has_post_thumbnail()) : ?
                           a href="?php the_permalink(); ?" title="?php the_title_attribute(); ?" 
                           ?php the_post_thumbnail('thumbnail'); ?
                           /a
                         ?php endif; ?
                    /div
                    div class="col-md-4"
                    h5?php the_title(); ?/h5
                        ?php echo custom_field_excerpt(); ?
                        ul
                            libStock #:/b ?php the_field('stock_number'); ?/li
                            libEngine Manufacturer:/b ?php the_field('engine_manufacturer'); ?/li
                            libEngine Type:/b ?php the_field('engine_type'); ?/li
                            libHorsepower:/b ?php the_field('horsepower'); ?/li
                            libTransmission:/b ?php the_field('transmission'); ?/li
                        /ul   
                    /div
                    div class="col-md-4"
                    h4Price: $?php the_field('price'); ?/h4
                        div contact-info-archive
                            spanTitle/spanbr
                            addressAddress/address
                            spanPhone:Phone Number/spanbr
                            a href="?php the_permalink(); ?" title="?php the_title_attribute(); ?" class="btn btn-default"Learn More/a
                        /div          
                    /div
                /div
                ?php endwhile; ?
            /div!-- #content --
        /div
        div class="col-md-3 search-filter"
            div class="panel panel-default"
                ?php echo do_shortcode( '[searchandfilter taxonomies="model,make"]' ); ?
            /div

        /div
    /div

/div!-- #container --


?php get_footer(); ?

Topic advanced-custom-fields templates custom-post-types Wordpress

Category Web

1
answered at

I added this code before my loop and separated the custom taxonomy templates rather than pointing them to one general search template to display results based on the current taxonomy. Hope this helps someone.

$current_cat = get_query_var('model');
                  $args = array(
                    'post_type' => 'truck',
                    'model' => $current_cat
                  );
                 query_posts($args);

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