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Video for Advanced Property Search Custom fields setup:

How to enable custom fields:

Set how many fields to show

Works ONLY with custom fields enabled, set on YES and it’s managed from the same page

Notes:

  • To enable Tabs in Search and select what Tabs categories to display you must first enable Type 6 or Type  8

Help for search type 6 – http://help.wpresidence.net/article/1-18-advanced-search-type-6/

Help for search type 8 – http://help.wpresidence.net/article/advanced-search-type-8/

What Fields to add in Advanced Search Setup

In Advanced Search, you can add your custom fields. Check the details below.

Enable Location Field

Starting version 3.3 we have the following location field for Address, State, City, Area or Zip Code.

In admin the field is set as in the screenshot below.

You can show only location field on homepage with the option highlight in red.

 

1. Property Taxonomies: City, Area, State, Type, Category

Property Taxonomies must have LIKE for compare.

  • Cities,
  • Areas,
  • State,
  • Type,
  • Category
The search fields titles are not modified in this area. You can edit them with POEDIT (see the Translation Chapter) – http://help.wpresidence.net/article/translation/

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Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Rooms

  • Default fields Rooms, Bedrooms, Bathrooms – are number type.
  • You can use EQUAL, GREATER or SMALLER for compare.
  • You can type the title in the Label field.
  • You can choose to show these fields as dropdown from settings or keep them as input style fields

bedrooms search

Country

Country Field must have LIKE for compare and it’s an independent dropdown (it doesn’t filter specific states, cities or areas)

The country field was originally designed to allow users to select their default country (which shows automatically in Add Property) and allows selecting the property location on the map (latitude and longitude).

The field was not created to be allowed on a multi-country platform and for that reason Country is independent from States, Cities and Country and will show all countries automatically.

The list of countries is visible in General Settings and Add Property pages.

Help to change the list – http://help.wpresidence.net/article/how-to-remove-countries-from-the-dropdown/

In front end country will show all countries as independent dropdown

Title Keyword

Keyword field works only for Property Title.

If you add this field – you must use LIKE for compare.

Dropdown custom field

  • First, add this field in Custom fields
  • Dropdown custom field type must have LIKE for compare.
  • These fields are added first in Theme Options – Listing Custom Fields.

6. Text Custom Field

  • First, add this field in Custom fields –
  • TEXT custom field type must have LIKE for compare.
  • These fields are added first in Theme Options – Listing Custom Fields. See the chapter for this topic separately.

7. Number custom field

  • First, add this field in Custom fields –
  • Number custom field type must have EQUAL, SMALLER or GREATER for compare.
  • These fields are added first in Theme Options – Listing Custom Fields.

8. Date Custom Field

First, add this field in Custom fields

Date custom field type must have DATE GREATER or DATE SMALLER for compare.

9. Price Slider in Advanced Search

Video Tutorial: http://wpestate.org/wp-residence-set-price-slider/

Step1: Enable the price slider and set the min and max values in Advanced Search Settings.

Step2: Then in the advanced search form, you must have 1 field for price slider set like this:

price-field

How to disable price slider and use input for minim price and maxim price:

First, disable price slider:

Then add to advanced search custom fields the following 2 fields:

price fields

In front-end price fields are input type:

price in front end

10. Property ID automatically created by WordPress

This field will not work with search over map. It will display results only in Advanced Search Results page.

Video Tutorial: http://wpestate.org/wp-residence-1-07-add-advanced-search-property-unique-id/

proeprty id

12. Property ID manually created in theme options

First Remove the Automatic ID from front end – Property Page with this CSS.

#propertyid_display{   
display:none;   
}

manual id

manual id search

This ID can be added in Admin when adding/editing property or in Front End submission form when submitting property.

14. Property Size

  • This is a default field, number type.
  • To set a field for min property size set fields like this

min size

  • To set a field for equal property size set the field like this

equal size

  • To set a field for maxim property size set the field like this

maxim property size

  • In front end the field is input type. Users must type numbers to get accurate results:

front size

15. PROPERTY ZIP

Zip is a text field. In advanced search the field must be set up like this:

zip

In front end the field will be input type:

input

What to check if search doesn’t return the correct results

The theme looks for properties by their title and slugs (in order to work in multiple languages).
That is why it’s extremely important that for search to work titles and slugs match. 
Please be sure you follow these instructions when you ADD or EDIT new property category. This applies to new or edited CATEGORIES, ACTIONS, CITIES, AREAS, and STATES.
  • 1. Add a new category. Type Name
  • 2. LET WORDPRESS CREATE THE SLUG (title and slugs must always match for search results to be accurate).  This way search will work with pins correctly.

IMPORTANT: