Can I search only some of the fields of a custom post type?

With WP’s default search – no.

But you can with this plugin. Select “Lucene” or “Mysql Fulltext” (Zend Lucene is a little faster) as the search engine, check the “post meta” module and select the meta fields you want to search in the module settings. Then re-index

You’ll also have to edit the models/spider.php from the plugin dir to include custom post types – Search for instances of {$wpdb->posts}.post_type and add the appropriate custom post type slug there…

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