First, don’t hack core files (unless you intend to submit a patch 🙂 ). Second, what you are doing isn’t really checking to see if the title exactly matches the search string. What you are doing it checking to see if there is only one result. That doesn’t mean the title matches. Undo the core … Read more
You could do two things: A) replace the search with a SQL query that only searches the postmeta table (faster as there’s no JOIN involved – you can get the post via it’s ID later on, when displaying the results). B) Split the string right after WHERE 1=1 and drop the later part. You can … Read more
This is may not be the best solution, but it works. Following code needs to be added in functions.php. add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘parameter_queryvars’ ); // Let WP accept the query argument we will use function parameter_queryvars( $qvars ) { $qvars[] = ‘posts_per_page’; return $qvars; } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘change_post_per_page’ ); // Filter posts based on passed query variable … Read more
Your requirements slant towards using the_excerpt() with adding read more link by custom code: print 55 words – already this by default and adjustable via excerpt_length filter but react to <!–more–> – this already happens, auto-generated excerpt cannot be longer than teaser (part from start of post to <!–more–> tag) and if manual excerpt is … Read more
I’ve solved it by using this tutorial: Creating The sitewide global/unified search Page for your Buddypress Theme (28 Apr 2010; Buddy Dev)
I found a way to make this work. I was right with the thought that pre_get_posts was the way to go. First, I added an action: // Filter the search page add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘search_pre_get_posts’); Then I added the function. This function first checks that the context is correct. In my custom search form, I use a … Read more
Well you can try and run debug_backtrace(); on your function. For example: function wpse_82183_debug( $query ) { //your query goes here, this is just a basic one if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( ‘posts_per_page’, 1 ); //magic happens here var_dump(debug_backtrace()); } } add_action( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘wpse_82183_debug’ ); There are also a number of plugins … Read more
I managed to resolve by extending the query function extend_search( $search, &$wp_query ) { global $wpdb; if ( empty( $search )) return $search; $terms = $wp_query->query_vars[ ‘s’ ]; $exploded = explode( ‘ ‘, $terms ); if( $exploded === FALSE || count( $exploded ) == 0 ) $exploded = array( 0 => $terms ); $search=””; foreach( … Read more
display custom fields in columns and rows: get_post_meta to display them in your theme, and add_meta_box to customize the admin Expose filters, that is, create drop-downs at the top, to allow the end user to select: you may want to use the custom fields parameters of query_posts. E.g.: Dropdown field in a form at the … Read more
Yes, Relevanssi will do the trick for you, but you need some additional code. Relevanssi has a filter hook relevanssi_hits_filter, which lets you modify the list of results. So, you need to create a function that will take the hits and if there’s a species profile that matches the search query, the function will add … Read more