I had the same desire. A quick and dirty answer is to use the get_meta_sql to replace the leading ‘AND’ with an ‘OR’. (See also the answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43734845/how-to-give-or-relation-in-tax-query-and-meta-query-wordpress ( A related, but not duplicate, question.) )
Use “search” in permalink?
WP Query Args – Title or Taxonomy Value
Extend product search with meta in WooCommerce
Please add exclude_from_search to false, inside your register post type function add_action(‘init’, ‘eyewebz_create_post_types’); function eyewebz_create_post_types() { register_post_type(‘project’, array( ‘taxonomies’ => array(‘category’), ‘labels’ => $labels, ‘has_archive’ => true, ‘show_in_rest’ => true, ‘hierarchical’ => true, ‘public’ => true, ‘publicly_queryable’ => true, ‘supports’ => array(‘title’, ‘editor’, ‘post-formats’, ‘page-attributes’, ‘thumbnail’, ‘excerpt’), ‘exclude_from_search’ => false, ‘menu_icon’ => ‘dashicons-index-card’ )); }
I’ve figured out a fix. First, to fix bad results for an empty search, I require that (!empty(get_query_var(‘s’)) Before setting the “meta_query” query variable in my plugin. I thought the fix would be with the posts_request filter, but it continued to replace select SQL_CALC_GET_ROWS wp_posts.ID with select SQL_CALC_GET_ROWS wp_posts.* Even when I replaced the * … Read more
Rewrite: WordPress URL rewrite on Search
How to sort by columns within a search result without displaying all rows again after sorting
Try adding the following code snippet to your functions.php file: /** * Extend WordPress search to include custom fields * * https://adambalee.com */ /** * Join posts and postmeta tables * * http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/posts_join */ function cf_search_join( $join ) { global $wpdb; if ( is_search() ) { $join .=’ LEFT JOIN ‘.$wpdb->postmeta. ‘ ON ‘. $wpdb->posts … Read more
I’d simply go for WP_User_Query for this: $args = [ ‘meta_key’ => ‘is_registered’, ‘meta_value’ => ‘Yes’, ‘fields’ => ‘ID’, ]; $user_query = new WP_User_Query($args);