Second page (and next) of search results redirects me to the home page
Solved changing the location block with this: location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; }
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Specific website content
You will want to register custom post types for each of the sections (books, articles, etc). Your post types should be registered as a custom plugin so that they can be kept in the case you decide to switch your theme. Custom post types: http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types WordPress plugin API: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API The advanced search is a bit … Read more
Dashboard search function doesn’t work well
Your issue is with the modification to the site search. You need to restrict your filter more. To prevent it executing on the backend add a negated is_admin() condition. add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘tgm_cpt_search’ ); function tgm_cpt_search( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_search ) $query->set( ‘post_type’, array( ‘page’) ); return $query; }; That filter is … Read more
How to search for post content and attached file names
If you look at the $wpdb->posts table in the database, you will notice that the file names, minus the file type ending, are used for the post_title for attachments. This means that you can effectively search the file name if you can get your search function to search attachments, which the default search (almost) already … Read more
My default search is not working
It is better to modify WordPress search SQL query instead of adding extra meta query. try this: function search_distinct($distinct) { $distinct=”DISTINCT”; return $distinct; } function join_table($join){ global $wpdb; $join .= “LEFT JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ($wpdb->posts.ID = $wpdb->postmeta.post_id) “; return $join; } function search_into_post_meta( $search, $wp_query ) { if ( is_search() ) { global $wpdb; if … Read more
Prevent searches less than 4 characters
You can use the pattern attribute to ask for at least 3 characters: <input pattern=”.{3,}”> But if your database dies just because someone searches for a three letter word … you have other problems than search. Optimize your database instead, or find another solution. A simple search, even dozens per minute should not be a … Read more
How to remove notice inside search.php when no results are found?
get_post() returns the post object to the loop. So when you look for its ->ID if no object is there you try to make php to look for ID of nothing, and it gives you the notice. Change post->ID for if( ! get_post() )
WP_User_Query not searching
WP_User_Query searches the $wpdb->users table. It will not join on your custom table. How would it know what to JOIN? The possible tables names and structures are practically infinite. I believe you might be able to use a filter on pre_user_query to insert your own values in the WHERE clause but there is no JOIN … Read more
WordPress custom search by post type
Yes, it is possible. You will have to use your custom SQL query though. Use posts_where filter to modify the query. function posts_where( $where ) { if( !is_admin() ) { $where = <YOUR CONDITION>; } return $where; } add_filter( ‘posts_where’ , ‘posts_where’ ); Your condition should look something like this: post_status=”publish” AND ((post_type=”post” AND post_title … Read more
When clicking on submit from my searchform it takes me to home.php
As noted above, when I tried that code I ended up on a server level 404 page. If this is meant to be a standard WordPress search ( ia m not sure if it is) you need to be using name=”s” and not name=”q”. WordPress uses the s GET variable for a search. The following … Read more