While looking for possible pointers I found the SearchAutocomplete plugin, which seems to do what you want. You can see it in action at the site of the author. Search box with autocomplete dropdown in different themes http://s.wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-autocomplete/screenshot-1.gif?r=380767
Here, wpe_excerpt is not defined so the page is erroring out.
DeluxeBlogTips.com 1) has an article on how to do combined searches in both posts and meta data. Basically, it involves two queries via the $wpdb object; one to search the meta table to get a list of post_ids and the other is a query of posts to get post_ids. You then merge the arrays and … Read more
You got a preg_match_all(), various JOINs, anonymous/lambda functions. In short: Everything that makes debugging hard and is performance wise a no-go. In short: You should use a meta_query instead. Take a look at Code meta_query » Multiple Custom Field Handling:
there are 3 steps towards achieving your goal. 1 – Rewrite rules – wordpress needs to know what to look for and what to map it to add_rewrite_rule( ‘suche/([^/]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?s=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); add_rewrite_rule( ‘suche/([^/]+)(/seite/(\d+))/?$’, ‘index.php?s=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[3]’, ‘top’ ); The above adds straight rewrite rules to the rewrite rules array so anytime someone goes to a URL … Read more
This is what I was looking for: /?s=+&author_name=username
This is the code I get from here, but I don’t remember the exact page, and this is my working page of letter B on my website (using the same code as you see below) <?php /* Template Name: Locali per lettera A WordPress template to list page titles by first letter. You should modify … Read more
I would use a custom query This explains how to search for keywords in a custom table. You could adjust this as required to your table and required output.
I found the solution. I had to flush rules after I change the search base with the code on the edited question. Here is the final code: $lang = get_bloginfo(“language”); if ( $lang == ‘de-DE’ ) { add_action(‘init’, ‘search_base_german’); function search_base_german() { $search_slug = ‘suche’; // change slug name $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’]->search_base = $search_slug; $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’]->flush_rules(); } }
What if you use IN operator and split the search term in a words array: $args = array( ‘role’ => ‘Subscriber’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘membership_class’, ‘value’ => ‘Full’, ‘compare’ => ‘=’, ‘type’ => ‘CHAR’, ), array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ => ‘first_name’, ‘value’ => explode( ‘ ‘, $usersearch ), ‘compare’ => … Read more