Extending wordpress search to include excerpts and taxonomies?
With WordPress 4.2.2 I’m using the following (admittedly fragile) method to search excerpts as well as the content and title without a plugin. This is the relevant snippet from functions.php. add_filter(‘posts_where’, ‘custom_posts_where’); function custom_posts_where($where) { if (is_search()) { $where = preg_replace( “/(\w+).post_title LIKE (‘%.*?%’)/”, “$1.post_title LIKE $2) OR ($1.post_excerpt LIKE $2”, $where); } return $where; … Read more