This will do exactly what you’re asking for: add_action(‘wp’, ‘redirect_empty_search’); function redirect_empty_search() { global $wp_query; if( isset( $_REQUEST[‘s’] ) && 0 === $wp_query->post_count ) { wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; } } You’ll want to add some kind of message on the homepage when this happens, maybe by adding a query parameter to home_url() and displaying … Read more
Add this line – <?php $search_query[‘post_type’] = ‘products’; ?> Just before the line – <?php $search = new WP_Query($search_query); ?>
In Google Site search, you can set up Refinements ( Edit Search engine – > Search Features -> Refinements tab. You can also set synonyms and promotions (so that particular pages will always appear at the top of specific search results pages). The Google content is based on spidering though, so it won’t understand back-end … Read more
Use <?php echo home_url( “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” ); ?> as the action. ‘search’ by the way is not a valid bloginfo parameter.
The problem is that by default WordPress only looks in the title and content field. As you build your pages from multiple pieces of external post types the default query doesn’t find those parts. Before we go any further I want you to know that this is going to be quite involved as you need … Read more
You can include the search form in your 404.php file using the get_search_form() function. Using get_sidebar( ‘404’ ); would look for a file called sidebar-404.php and fall back on sidebar.php if needed. get_sidebar()
If you want to exclude certain posts, wouldn’t the conditional be: if ($value != ” && get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘value’, true) != ‘value_to_exclude’) Anyhow, you’re excluding AFTER you run the query. So $total_results will always be ‘wrong’. The better approach is to write sql for WP_Query that does the excluding for you. But you didn’t include the … Read more
Same issue with you and just found it out on stackexchange. Put codes below in the function.php in your theme. function _cancel_query( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() && !is_feed() && is_search() ) { $query = false; } return $query; } add_action( ‘posts_request’, ‘_cancel_query’ ); Here’s the source
Search code comes with wordpress.If you remove search box it does not mean that search page is removed. If you want that google should not crawl your search page then you can specify in your robot.txt file like below : Disallow: /search
The concept of same meta field values being relative to each other isn’t native to WordPress. On top of my head you could create second meta field, which would express that relativeness as a number. So president is 1, vice president 2 and so on. This would be a pain to adjust if the hierarchy … Read more