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The user password (stored as an MD5 hash) can be retrieved like so: $users = get_users(); foreach ( $users as $user ) { $password = $user->user_pass; } Assuming you have some known value for passkey, you can hash it and compare it to each user’s password: $passkey = ‘somestring’; $hashed_passkey = md5( $passkey ); $users … Read more

How does Show Posts based on a keyword search work in WP_Query

WP search is rather simplistic. After some processing on search query, it adds condition to SQL query looking for LIKE (contains) match in title or post content. So natively assigned taxonomies are not searched. So you will either have to use additional code (or third party plugin) or use third party search solution (Google Custom … Read more

Custom WordPress Excerpt within terms

I’ve used code like this, based (extremely) loosely on the plugin relevanssi: (in “functions.php”) // Roughly based on the relevanssi_do_excerpt() (https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/, GPLv2 or later), seriously simplified. function mytheme_search_context( $haystack, $needles, $len = 30 ) { $ret=””; $haystack = strip_tags(mytheme_strip_invisibles($haystack)); $haystack = trim( preg_replace( array( “/\n\r|\r\n|\n|\r/”, ‘/\s\s+/’, ‘/&.{1,30}?;/’ ), ‘ ‘, $haystack ) ); $words = … Read more

How to make custom WordPress page deliver search results

Maybe it´s easier to output some content from a different page/post in your search template which got a fixed slug. I for example use this: $page = get_posts(array(‘name’ => ‘welcome’)); if ($page) { echo ‘<h1>’.$page[0]->post_title.'</h1>’; echo ‘<p>’.$page[0]->post_content.'</p>’; } This fetches the post with the slug “welcome” and displays its content. As I don´t use a … Read more

How to make WordPress search.php display all strings found on pages or posts

After WordPress 4.8 upgrade, wp_nav_menu() string search / replace not working

I found that WordPress added an extra space. <ul class=”sub-menu”> so the search and replace could not be done correctly. If you look in the code inspector (developer tools) you won’t see the extra space. Once going to view source code (command + shift + U), I noticed the actual output code had the extra … Read more

Query comments with non-empty ‘author_url’ value on Admin Comments Screen

We can set the author_url argument of WP_Comment_Query as null (empty string will not work) to search for comments that don’t have an author url. Currently (ver 4.8.1) the has_author_url isn’t supported. Using a sub-query to exclude those comments, with no author_url, using comment__not_in, should work, but wouldn’t probably scale well. Setting fields as ids … Read more

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Search query alteration not working for meta values

Dynamically added text at bottom of article – non searchable by PHP code

Making ACF fields appear in search results

How do I find users by password?