Search results

About no results – can you please give me some examples of search queries that show such an error?

About ‘Bolts’ search – well you can add this search inside product content or create a new ‘Bolts’  category and attach it to all such products.

Regards

About loading issue – I tried this search query and for me it almost immediately shows a ‘No results’ message. Maybe this problem appears only when you are logged-in. Please try to log-out and search one more time or use browser incognito mode.

About bolt category – so, as I understand, you want to move to top all products with this category. Is this correct?

In fact I see a page when there are no results. For some reason it’s just loads too long.

About “bolts” search – what can be done here is to add more relevance for products with this category so they must appear higher in the search results list.

So please try to use following code snippet:

add_filter( 'aws_search_query_array', 'my_aws_search_query_array' );
function my_aws_search_query_array( $query ) {

    $products = get_posts( array(
        'post_type' => 'product',
        'numberposts' => -1,
        'post_status' => 'publish',
        'fields' => 'ids',
        'tax_query' => array(
            array(
                'taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
                'field' => 'slug',
                'terms' => 'bolts', /*category slug*/
                'operator' => 'IN',
            )
        ),
    ));

    if ( ! empty( $products ) ) {
        $featured_st = implode(',', $products);
        $relevance = "( case when ID IN ( " . $featured_st . " ) then 800 else 0 end ) + ";
        $query['relevance'] = preg_replace( '/\(SUM\([\s\S]*?\([\s\S]*?case[\s\S]*?end[\s\S]*?\)[\s\S]*?\+/i', '$0' . $relevance, $query['relevance'] );
    }

    return $query;

}

You need to add it somewhere outside the plugins folder. For example, inside functions.php file of your theme or use some plugin for adding code snippets.

Also, after adding this code you will need to go to the plugin settings page and click the ‘Clear cache’ button.

Regards

So it is, as I see, an issue with your current theme template for the search results page when there are no search results. This template just doesn’t show any message. For example page https://eeinc.biz/?s=scew&post_type=product show default search results ( not the plugin search results ) but still we see the same issue here.

Maybe you can ask the theme author about this issue? Usually template for product search results must be specified inside the archive-product.php file of your theme. So you also can edit it to add that ‘No results’ message.