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How do I search events between two set dates inside WP?

There two things that you need to do to make this happen: 1) Create metadata for the data for each event 2) Query for the posts using meta_query For #1, you need to add a metabox that allows the user to add a date for the event. This data should be stored as metadata using … Read more

Customise Excerpt start and end

The Search Everything plugin supports “Search Highlighting” in the results page which should produce the results you are looking for. We have no way of knowing how customized the search results page is in your specific project though. You may find that you are fighting an up hill battle until you (or someone on your … Read more

meta_query issue with multiple numerics

Untested and semi-pseudo code obviously. The idea is that a meta query is already an array of arrays, each field in your form is another nested array. If a value exists we push it onto the array. <?php $_location = $_GET[‘location’] != ” ? $_GET[‘location’] : ”; $_status = $_GET[‘status’] != ” ? $_GET[‘status’] : … Read more

Filter post_type thumbnail in Search result

If you look at your code, you see that parameters for a WP_Query are defined in $defaults. There is also ‘post_type’ => ‘any’ defined which could be changed to ‘post_type’ => ‘post’ to query only for posts, not pages etc. As you see later on, the search function redefines the post_type to $context based. After … Read more

Where should I start looking if I want to implement my own custom search?

How can I hide uncategorized products from search results?

Empty search results return soft 404

Use a web service such as W3C Link Checker to find out the broken links and fix it. Also based on what you described, if it a self-developed theme and caused due to search, make sure you will have a content template that handle the none content situation. You can check your theme’s search.php and … Read more

Risk of sql injection for custom search form

How to add re-captcha to wordpress search?

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