Adding the following code in functions.php customize WP search for title only function search_by_title_only( $search, &$wp_query ) { global $wpdb; if ( empty( $search ) ) return $search; // skip processing – no search term in query $q = $wp_query->query_vars; $n = ! empty( $q[‘exact’] ) ? ” : ‘%’; $search = $searchand = ”; … Read more
You are missing the curly brackets {} around your query statements so the query is modified regardless of the if statement. So try modifying your code to have something like if( is_search() ) { $fields=”…”; return $fields } same thing with your $join variable Remember that while using if without brackets is acceptable for single … Read more
You can use ‘pre_get_posts’ filter hook and change the search query. function wpse_search_filter( $query ) { if ( $query->is_search ) { $query->set( ‘post_type’, array(‘product’) ); // setting post type as product (for woocommerce only) } return $query; } add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’wpse_search_filter’);
It’s possible to search within drafts by setting the post_status argument to draft in your search query, however, a better option is to control things with the arguments passed to register_post_type. We first set public to false, which will hide the post type everywhere- front and back end. We then selectively enable show_ui to get … Read more
Your code will check whether you are on a search page or not ( You also forgot to wrap your conditional in parentheses ). In order to check if there is any result for your search, use have_posts(): if( have_posts() ) { // There is a post } else { // No results } This … Read more
orderby should be e.g. meta_value or meta_value_num – various specific meta_type‘s are available – to order by meta data. Additionally a meta_key has to be set and present in the query. To be exact and to avoid misunderstandings, meta_key has to be the keyname of the field you’re sorting by. Take a closer look at … Read more
The pre_get_posts filter is the right place to go. You can check if you are on a search query, and alter it the way you want. Here’s an example: function search_filter($query) { if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) { // Check if we are on a search page if ($query->is_search) { // Get the search … Read more
There are few ways to solve this problem… 1. Don’t bother and use Relevansi (or some other similar plugin) You can often hear that using many plugins is a bad thing. It’s not entirely true. It’s bad only if these plugins have big impact on use of resources. In this case, Relevansi won’t cause such … Read more
This code should work OK, but… There are some problems with it. Let’s break it apart and add some comments. function searchcategory($query) { if ($query->is_search) { // Checking only for is_search is very risky. It will be set to true // whenever param “s” is set. So your function will modify any wp_query with s, … Read more
It should just be a matter of setting the ‘s’ argument of wp_get_recent_posts() (or just get_posts()) to the search term: $args = array( ‘numberposts’ => $numberposts, ‘offset’ => $offset, ‘category__not_in’ => array(391), ‘category’ => $category, ‘orderby’ => ‘post_date’, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_type’ => ‘post’, ‘post_status’ => ‘publish’, ‘s’ => $searchterm, ); $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args, … Read more