What you want to do is use the pre_get_posts action to exclude the post ID from the search results query. This allows you to “pre” set some elements of the query, including an array of post IDs to exclude with the “post__not_in” value. Suppose the ID of your privacy policy it 11, then you’d pass … Read more
You’re using get_the_tags() incorrectly. It does not return an array of tag names. It returns an array of tag objects. Each tag object does contain the tag’s name (along with other data), but you can’t use implode() on that result. I used your original code just adding a step to put the tag object’s name … Read more
Try this. It’s a function that will filter the search query and replace any smart quotes with their “dumb” equivalent. <?php /** * Filter smart quotes out of a search query. * Replace them with “dumb” quotes. * * @param WP_Query $query Instance of WP_Query. */ function filter_search_smart_quotes( $query ) { if ( $query->is_search() ) … Read more
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So you want more general autocomplete, rather than something specific (like blog tags for example)? If you use (or will consider using) Google Custom Search (which is very popular option to replace native WP search), they made it quite easy to enable native autocomplete with it. See: Autocompletion of queries in Custom Search Control over … Read more
I just ran a test on my hosted dev site. I ran the following: echo ‘<pre>’; global $wpdb; print_r($wpdb); print_r($GLOBALS); echo ‘</pre>’; There was no ‘wp_query’, ‘[q]’, or ‘search’ variables to be found. Note that I was not able to search this through a search engine as it’s not web accessible. Just to give you … Read more
You can change the /search/ part to something else, like /topic/, but it will be harder to remove it completely, since that will conflict with WordPress Pages (is /banana/ a Page with the title “Banana” or is it the result page for the search term “Banana”?). To change the part, hook into the init action … Read more
UPDATE: After I needed this myself, I reworked it completely. The Goal I wanted to point every get_permalink() call directly to the paged post page – without any exception. At least this is the function used by nearly every other function that needs to link somewhere, so it imo also is the most reliable. What … Read more
Try this: function filter_search($query) { if ($query->is_search) { $query->set(‘post_type’, array(‘post’, ‘page’)); }; return $query; }; add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘filter_search’);
There is actually an existing tool called Sitewide Tags that takes care of this. Essentially, it creates an extra hidden site on your network and mirrors content from each of your other sites on it. Then, when you search, you search against the hidden site and get links back to the original content location. I’ve … Read more