“Show single variation” not working in search results

Greetings XTemos team!
I am considering switching to the “Show single variation” method on our production site, and am currently running some tests on our staging site.

While the single variations are showing properly in the categories/navigation, only the parent product is showing in the search results.

Please see the admin login details and a link to an example product, in the private content.

Also, I noticed that the the single variations are being displayed “far away” from the parent product and not right before or after it, as if the variations have a different publish date.
Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/NF7rnOTArXmx

Thanks in advance for your assistance!

Hi wildguitars,

Thanks for reaching to us and appreciate your patience.

When you enable the option from the theme options then it will only show the products separately on the front not divide the products on the backend in the products section, and the filters do not pick the products from the front end. This is the way it works.

Best Regards,
Hung PD

Hi Hung, thank you for the prompt reply, although I’m not sure you entirely understood my inquiry.

In the first row of this category, you can see the three separate variations of the Schecter Nick Johnston Trad 10th Anniversary HSS guitar:
https://dev2.wildguitars.co.il/product-category/גיטרות/גיטרות-חשמליות/גיטרות-חשמליות-6-מיתרים/
You can also see the parent product in the fourth row.

But if you search “Nick Johnston” (for example), in the search results, you can only see the parent product (the only one with the turquoise label)
https://dev2.wildguitars.co.il/?post_type=product&s=nick+johnston&asp_active=1&p_asid=1&p_asp_data=1

I am asking how can we see the variations in the search results as well?

Best regards,
Tom

Hi wildguitars,

I fully understood your queries, please let me know explain in more details:

When you enable Show single variation, the theme visually displays each variation (like the color Beige or Blue) as separate items on the frontend, but these variations are not treated as individual products in the backend, which is where the filter widgets pull data from. This feature separates variations on the front end, but filtering still relies on the parent product structure.

Hope you can understand!

Best Regards,
Hung PD

Thank you for clarifying this, Hung, all understood.

Best regards,
Tom

Hi wildguitars,

Thanks for understanding.

Keep us in mind for future questions and concerns, we’re always here to help!

Regards,
Hung PD

Thank you, Hung. I do have a few more questions, if its okay!

1. I’d like to follow up on my question:
Also, I noticed that the the single variations are being displayed “far away” from the parent product and not right before or after it, as if the variations have a different publish date.
Screenshot: https://prnt.sc/NF7rnOTArXmx

Is there a way to control the “publish” date & time of the variations?

2. There are scenarios where we activate a sale price only on one variation. While I see that when adding a sale price to a single variation, the sale price is displayed on the front end, but there is no “sale” label which is supposed to be automatically added when there is a sale price.

Is there a way to control the display of the labels for certain variations in the grid?
I have activated “Display for variation” in the BeRocket Advanced Product Labels plugin we are using.

Best regards,
Tom

Hi wildguitars,

Please record a video that demonstrates the problem so we can understand and reproduce it on your website.

Kind Regards,
Hung PD

Hi Hung, please view the following video at your earliest convenience: https://we.tl/t-RontxV2Gq6

Hi wildguitars,

Thanks for the video and appreciate your patience.

Unfortunately, this is due to the sorting algorithm, and it’s not possible to change how it works.

In this case, to have the variations appear next to the main product, you need to change the product sorting to Default sorting https://monosnap.com/file/UUl9hCUUg5lgD9vZA0BERs6cJ3A6WO.

Regards,
Hung PD

Hi Hung,
Thank you for getting back to me and I apologize for taking so long to reply.

So, if the products are sorted by “newest to oldest”, the variations will appear according to the date in which they were added to the grid after re-saving that specific product?

For example, let’s say the parent product was published on January 1st, 2025
And I enabled “Show single variation” on August 5th, 2025
And I re-saved the parent product on August 5th, 2025
The variations will have a “publish” date of August 5th, 2025?

Hi wildguitars,

Update the products after the option enabled, it’s just modified date and no differences.

Regards,
Hung PD

I’m not sure I understood your reply, sorry.

Hi wildguitars,

Sorry for confusion.

It means it does not differences even you updated the products.

Regards,
Hung PD

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