Setting the post type at pre_get_posts can solve this. You can set it like below- function the_dramatist_search_only_page($query) { if ($query->is_search && !is_admin() ) { $query->set(‘post_type’,array(‘page’)); } return $query; } add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’the_dramatist_search_only_page’); Hope it helps.
The big advantage is that it is easy! get_search_form() is only including the file searchform.php of the template. Most of the time it’s not more as an simple input field. When the form is submitted search.php is loaded for displaying the found content. It is possible to modify the search query using an pre_get_post action … Read more
This is fine, but you if you want things to look “cleaner” and be easier to modify you could instead create a new file menu-search.php and add your HTML there then tweak your function a bit (don’t forget to prefix your functions) function myprefix_add_search_box_to_menu($items, $args) { if ( $args->theme_location == ‘menu-1’ ) { ob_start(); get_template_part( … Read more
You can use WP_query() to narrow down the results of your search: <?php $args = array( ‘s’ => $_GET[‘s’], ‘post_type’ => array( ‘post’, ‘page’ ), ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘category_name’ => ‘music’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1 ); $custom_search = new WP_Query( $args ); if ( $custom_search->have_posts() ) { while ( $custom_search->have_posts() ) : $custom_search->the_post(); ?> <div class=”entry-content”> … Read more
Yes, it’s pretty easy to make our static HTML Search-Bar dynamic. First, wrap up our <input />tag with <form> </form> tag mentioning action=”” and mehotd=”” Second, identify the default key of wordpress and assign it in name=”” attribute of input tag. To be specific, the code would be like this: <form method=”GET” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>”> … Read more
Your form doesn’t have an action, so it submits to whatever the current URL is. You can point it to home_url() so it will submit there regardless of what page you search from. <form method=”get” action=”<?php echo esc_url( home_url() ); ?>”>
I think it may be the way you are implimenting it. It appears that you are trying to add this to your theme as individual files however I do not see anywhere in the code you provided where you are calling on the searchform.php file in the theme itself. As such I tested the code … Read more
Here’s a solution that I came up with that uses a hidden field on the search form which we will later check in our filters to modify WP’s default search/redirect behavior. This is the search form I used. Note the addition of the hidden field barcode-reader with a value of 1. I added the search … Read more
by default, wordpress has it’s own main query in search page, in your case you didn’t changed the main query, and just create a custom query paged is a reserved query variable which is used first by your main query, when your main query dosent have same results, you face a 404 error you have … Read more
Since your code returns the posts belonging to 5 years ago, then I assume your problem is in the conditionals, since none of them are run. The form elements must have a name if you want to get their values in the back-end. Your select lacks a name, and you are trying to get its … Read more