I want to display a specific category of products on the top page of the shop page.
This was achieved with the code below.
However, with this code, when searching for products from the search console, only products in the specified category will be searched.
Is it possible to write code that invalidates the code triggered by the search console search action?

add_action('pre_get_posts','shop_filter_cat');

function shop_filter_cat($query) {
if (!is_admin() && is_post_type_archive( 'product' ) && $query->is_main_query()) {
$query->set('tax_query', array(
array ('taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array( '#','#'), //
)
)
); 
}
}

I want to display a specific category of products on the top page of the shop page.
This was achieved with the code below.
However, with this code, when searching for products from the search console, only products in the specified category will be searched.
Is it possible to write code that invalidates the code triggered by the search console search action?

add_action('pre_get_posts','shop_filter_cat');

function shop_filter_cat($query) {
if (!is_admin() && is_post_type_archive( 'product' ) && $query->is_main_query()) {
$query->set('tax_query', array(
array ('taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => array( '#','#'), //
)
)
); 
}
}

• php
• wp-query
• functions
• woocommerce-offtopic

1 Answer 1

This seems to be normal behavior since your filter will apply to any query made on post type archive "product". You might be able to deactivate the filter for search query by adding the is_search condition to your filter so your function would look like so:

add_action('pre_get_posts','shop_filter_cat');

function shop_filter_cat($query) {
    if (!is_admin() && is_post_type_archive( 'product' ) && $query->is_main_query() && !is_search()) {
    $query->set('tax_query', array(
        array ('taxonomy' => 'product_cat',
            'field' => 'slug',
            'terms' => array( '#','#'), //
            )
        )
    ); 
    }
}

Untested. hopefully this will help !

Codex ref: https://developer.wordpress/reference/functions/is_search/