Like others have said you can’t use pre get posts since there is no way of knowing if the search returned any posts. I would also say that the if else is a very clean way to do it and might be the better choice if anyone else is going to be working on this. … Read more
You can get close to what you want by using the template_redirect hook. function my_custom_search_url_rewrite() { if ( is_search() && ! empty( $_GET[‘s’] ) ) { wp_redirect( home_url( “/search/” ) . urlencode( get_query_var( ‘s’ ) ) ); exit(); } } add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘my_custom_search_url_rewrite’ ); Then you can use a URL like http://domain.com/search/category+location/. If you then … Read more
Remove this part from your posts_where filter: if (is_search() && get_search_query()) Note that is_search() is a check on the main query. If you want to target the main search query, there’s the posts_search filter available. Important: Watch out for possible SQL injections, as you are taking user input into the SQL query. I think the … Read more
You can use template_include filter hook to check if the current call is a search call and if so include your own template in which you can do what ever you want : add_filter(‘template_include’,’my_custom_search_template’); function my_custom_search_template($template){ global $wp_query; if (!$wp_query->is_search) return $template return dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/my_search_template.php’; }
The solution: $query = array( ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘post_type’ => ‘product’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 10, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘_price’, ‘value’ => array(50, 100), ‘compare’ => ‘BETWEEN’, ‘type’ => ‘NUMERIC’ ), ), ); $wpquery = WP_Query($query); // return 10 products within the price range 50 – 100
This question is too broad to answer in detail, but here is how I would approach this: Given that WP’s native search is slow, we can rule out using this to get intermediate results while the visitor is typing. Unless we have a lightning fast dedicated server. So, this means we will have to build … Read more
You can use template_include filter hook add_filter(‘template_include’,’my_custom_search_template’); function my_custom_search_template($template){ global $wp_query; if (!$wp_query->is_search) return $template; return dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/my_search_template.php’; } /*UPDATE: there was a missing “;” after $template*/
Quick tip – never, ever edit WP core files. Updates are released several times a year and you’ll lose your changes, among other reasons (such as security). Your theme and the particular template file in question is what determines how WP search is processed. Assuming no search plugin is active, and your theme is calling … Read more
It’s a duplicate of How to make search include data from wp_postmeta? (somewhy couldn’t mark it as a duplicate).
<form method=”post” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>/customsearch.php” class=”search-form” role=”search”> … </form> customsearch.php in content : http://pastebin.com/mxVPphXa customsearch.php should be here: yoursite.com/dir/customsearch.php