Don’t use the_post, instead use the_content filter to modify content passed to the the_content() call. However, this is your theme, so the best way to do this is to just do it in search.php, and not bother with the filters and actions. AKA don’t run the code on a filter to try and modify or … Read more
The problem is in this part <?php if ( is_search() ) : // Only display Excerpts for Search ?> <div class=”entry-summary”> <div class=”entry”> <?php $content = get_the_content(); $content = strip_tags($content); echo ‘<p>’ . substr($content, 0, 255) . ‘ […] </p>’; ?> <hr class=”post-divider”/> </div> </div> <?php else : ?> You need to add a link … Read more
You need an additional parameter meta_query in the WP_Query arguments. $query_args = [ ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘s’ => esc_attr( $_POST[‘keyword’] ), ‘post_type’ => ‘visitor’, ‘meta_query’ => [ ‘key’ => ‘visitor-hide’, ‘value’ => ‘yes’, ‘compare’ => ‘!=’, ] ] or in cases like yours (query by single custom field): $query_args = [ ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘s’ … Read more
This is another example of what is by far the most common mistake I’ve seen in WordPress development. I don’t think it’s even close to whatever the next most common is. I’m very curious as to what documentation or tutorials are out there that are teaching this approach to queries, or what could be done … Read more
You haven’t provided much info so I will give you a basic example. You need to find whatever template your theme is using to display the results, possibly search.php. If this isn’t your theme create a child theme and duplicate the file that displays the results. This file should already have an if statement for … Read more
If you mean a single-selection dropdown menu, then you can add the <select> element using wp_dropdown_categories(). Here’s an example with salary_bands being the taxonomy name/slug, and I’m placing the dropdown above or before the submit button, but you can just place it somewhere else in your form: <?php wp_dropdown_categories( array( ‘taxonomy’ => ‘salary_bands’, // taxonomy … Read more
If you want to submit a form you need a <form> element to contain the input. (You can get away without one but you’d need script to fake the submit.) The action is the homepage with the search text in an input named ‘s’, e.g. <form method=”get” action=”https://example.com/”> <input type=”search” name=”s” /> <input type=”submit” value=”Search” … Read more
Edit: to clarify, the answer to How can I merge them together for results? Is that you really can’t, not without a lot of custom SQL and using filters. The complexity of going that route far outweighs any perceived benefits and wouldn’t be very future-proof. I’d recommend using the solution below and putting it all … Read more
It’s just a form that takes a GET parameter named s. Example: <form method=”get” action=”/”> <input type=”text” name=”s” placeholder=”type here to search”> </form> But I recommend using the function called get_search_form() that does basically the same thing.
Use Google Custom Search – the following links show you how to do it. http://teamtutorials.com/web-development-tutorials/replace-wordpress-search-with-google-search-box http://www.davidrisley.com/how-to-replace-your-wordpress-search-with-google/