Advance WP Query Search Filter Not Working Now

[5150studios]

Hey guys, just got the plugin for a clients website and since installing the existing directory search using custom fields and Advance WP Query Search Filter plugin has stopped working. If I disable the Tribe Events Plugin, the search works again – any idea’s on what code in your plugin may be upsetting it?

[Barry]

It’s possible that if your search plugin is building queries that reference the events custom post type (including if it searches all post types) – and performs something called a join operation against the postmeta table in the database – this will conflict with our own query logic which also performs a join operation on that same table, whenever it detects that a database query relates to events.

I’m not familiar with Advance WP Query Search Filter, but one way to test this theory out – if it has a suitable option to achieve this – would be to stop it from searching for event post types / restrict it temporarily so it only searches regular posts and pages.

If it functions correctly in those conditions, this could indeed be the problem.

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