When you want a Google-style search where no results are initially shown you can use the following code, which will prevent results being displayed until a filter is applied.
Works with custom field filters, taxonomy filters, and/or text field searches.
/** * No initial results * * Don't show View results until a filter has been applied * * Tests for custom field filters, taxonomy filters, or text searches */ function tssupp_no_initial_results( $query_results, $view_settings, $view_id ){ $target_views = array( 226 ); // Edit to add IDs of Views to add this to if ( in_array( $view_id, $target_views ) ) { // if there is a search term set if ( !isset( $query_results->query['meta_query'] ) && !isset( $query_results->query['tax_query'] ) && !isset( $query_results->query['s'] ) ) { $query_results->posts = array(); $query_results->post_count = 0; $query_results->found_posts = 0; } } return $query_results; } add_filter( 'wpv_filter_query_post_process', 'tssupp_no_initial_results', 10, 3 );
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