Unexpected esc_html and esc_attr behaviour
Use get_search_query or the_search_query to return/output the search term as a properly escaped value, don’t access $_GET directly. You’re trying to escape something that’s already URLencoded.
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Add Icon to Placeholder Text in Search Form
If you’re using FontAwesome, you can display an icon in the placeholder text like this : HTML <input placeholder=”” class=”fontAwesome”> CSS .fontAwesome{ font-family: ‘Helvetica’, FontAwesome, sans-serif; }
How to exclude pages from WP search based on page title
You can query a list of post IDs using $wpdb based on their slugs, and then use that in your filter. Here’s a simple example of how to do this: function mm_search_filter( $query ) { // We will query a list of post IDs // by using $wpdb global $wpdb; $post_ids = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT ID FROM … Read more
Array_search ignoring the first element [closed]
In PHP, the number 0 is interpreted as false-ish. Your if-statement asks for a true-ish condition like this: If the result of the array_search function is interpreted as true-ish, THEN do the stuff which means if the result is 0, it is interpreted as false, and the code doesn’t run. What to do? Use the … Read more
How to implement search suggestions into search bar?
This question is too broad to answer in detail, but here is how I would approach this: Given that WP’s native search is slow, we can rule out using this to get intermediate results while the visitor is typing. Unless we have a lightning fast dedicated server. So, this means we will have to build … Read more
Get Adjacent post by search query
I’m not entirely sure, but it seems like you want to store the last visited page for future use (a go back button?). I see two ways to do this: Keep it in the URL as a get argument the same way you save the search queries. This leads to a long url, though Save … Read more
How to display search results in search.php
get_search_query() returns only the string that the user searched for. To display the search results, you’ll need to do some more work. The search results will be in $wp_query, and you can manipulate it using The Loop (like any other page). The following code is adapted from WordPress’s own Twenty Twenty theme‘s index.php file, and … Read more
Search queries don’t seem to work?
I’ve found that passing post_type doesn’t restrict searches to that type, but just adds that type to the array it already searches. What you can do to build complex search queries is hook pre_get_posts and do a little query manipulation. For a simple example, first I add my own query var to pass to WordPress’s … Read more
custom search results affected by _REQUEST set
A colleague of mine gave me this helpful answer, I hope it helps others: “To answer definitively, I would need to see a bit more code. Nonetheless, WordPress does override $_REQUEST, so depending on where this code is placed, it may be overwritten. So assuming that the parameter is being passed in the URL, I … Read more
WordPress Search not picking up text provided by a Plugin
WordPress searches the columns post_title and post_content. If you add your content to these columns they are searched. If you add the extra content per filter or shortcode during output you need a search plugin that is capable of indexing rendered pages (Relevanssi or Search Everything for example).