The WooCommerce Product Search plugin by Itthinx does not work well together with WooCommerce pagination or Pager facets. It has a known incompatibility that causes wrong total post counts, leading to misbehaving pagination and paged pages showing no products. We’ve seen this issue specifically on product category/term pages.

The following workaround fixes this issue:

Go to WooCommerce > Settings, then Search > General and disable the setting “Optimize front end product searches” under “Standard Product Search” (which is enabled by default):

FacetWP and WooCommerce Product Search plugin
Disable the setting “Optimize front end product searches” under “Standard Product Search”.

The plugin author has been notified of this issue, so it’s possible it will be fixed in future plugin versions (> v.4.6.0).

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Last updated: January 6, 2023