Admin Area Custom Type Search By Meta Fields Without Title & Content
There is a plugin called Search everything, where you can break down what you want to search. It does custom fields, posts and of course titles.
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Search Custom Post Type Pages and Custom Fields in 2 Dropdowns?
Looks like this question is a several months old, but it’s a good one so I’m digging it out of the grave. The way I would go about solving it would be to intercept any searches with the pre_get_posts filter and add in the meta query based on the provided information. Here’s a basic shot … Read more
Add custom fields to search
please never do this: ‘value’ => $_GET[‘s’] … $query->get(‘s’);, get_search_query, or sanitize_key($_GET[‘s’]) are all safer options. Technically we shouldn’t be using get-params in wordpress at all, it’s not a best-practice. That get value could be all sorts of bad things, & we don’t want to pass it along to the db without making sure it’s … Read more
How to correctly submit a search form and display the result in an independent page
To create your own independent search functionality, follow these steps. 1- You need a form to send the data for you. This is a simple form that can do this for you: <form method=”post” name=”car-select” action=”<?php echo site_url(‘/my-page/’); ?>”> <select name=”make”> <option value=”benz”>Benz</option> <option value=”bmw”>BMW</option> <option value=”audi”>Audi</option> </select> <select name=”type”> <option value=”sedan”>Sedan</option> <option value=”coupe”>Coupe</option> </select> … Read more
Including custom fields in search?
You could use a plugin like “Search Everything” which lets you toggle what to include in the search (including Custom Fields). Check it out here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/
How to add the author search in the default wordpress search?
This plugin called “WP Extended Search” looks like it would do the trick.: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/ There’s also this answer that may work for you: Possible to search by author name with default WordPress search function?
How to make WordPress search prioritise page titles?
You can replace the default WordPress search with something more useful. As you have pointed out, the build-in search is very limited. So you’re not the first one with this problem. I suggest the following two plugins: Search API (WordPress Plugin) WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin (WordPress Plugin) The last one allows to weight between parts … Read more
A search for ‘0’ returns results
Considering @Mayeenul Islam comment: I’ve just tested in a blank theme with dummy data, search with 0 (zero) fired an empty search – that means all: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wp_posts.ID FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.post_type IN (‘post’, ‘page’, ‘attachment’) AND (wp_posts.post_status=”publish”) ORDER BY wp_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10 and the fact that wp-includes/query.php contains if … Read more
what are the numbers between curly brackets in search query
Those are placeholders for % signs. If you’re sending % in the value to be compared against yourself, you’ll notice it transforming ‘%test%’ into wp_posts.post_title LIKE ‘{30d0e4b86a2a793010a75740f60810aff6b57f6d18edc10be7ca6dc158e40c06}\{30d0e4b86a2a793010a75740f60810aff6b57f6d18edc10be7ca6dc158e40c06}11{30d0e4b86a2a793010a75740f60810aff6b57f6d18edc10be7ca6dc158e40c06}\{30d0e4b86a2a793010a75740f60810aff6b57f6d18edc10be7ca6dc158e40c06}’ when you look at $query->request. The Query at the database side will have %. I haven’t looked into why exactly and where it is done, but I’ve noticed … Read more
WordPress Multiple Category Search
The problem is that in a url the ‘+’ sign is equivalent to a space so that’s how PHP sees it. If you use an action on parse_request you can make this work like so: add_action( ‘parse_request’, ‘category_search_logic’, 11 ); function category_search_logic( $query ) { if ( ! isset( $query->query_vars[ ‘cat’ ] ) ) return … Read more