search

I searched through all the files in the theme for the word “search” and tried removing that command from entry.php and entry-summary.php. None of that had an effect. I also tried removing the search.php file, that had no effect. To save you grief, any edits to the core files provided by WordPress will potentially break … Read more

Setting the post type at pre_get_posts can solve this. You can set it like below- function the_dramatist_search_only_page($query) { if ($query->is_search && !is_admin() ) { $query->set(‘post_type’,array(‘page’)); } return $query; } add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’,’the_dramatist_search_only_page’); Hope it helps.

Yes, it’s pretty easy to make our static HTML Search-Bar dynamic. First, wrap up our <input />tag with <form> </form> tag mentioning action=”” and mehotd=”” Second, identify the default key of wordpress and assign it in name=”” attribute of input tag. To be specific, the code would be like this: <form method=”GET” action=”<?php bloginfo(‘home’); ?>”> … Read more

Here’s a solution that I came up with that uses a hidden field on the search form which we will later check in our filters to modify WP’s default search/redirect behavior. This is the search form I used. Note the addition of the hidden field barcode-reader with a value of 1. I added the search … Read more

It is possible to filter search terms before they are submitted to the actual query using the query_vars hook. So in your case you would do something like this: add_filter (‘query_vars’, ‘wpse307005_filter_search’, 10, 1); function wpse307005_filter_search ($args) { preg_replace (‘Spiderman’,’Spider-Man’,$args[s]); preg_replace (‘Spider man’,’Spider-Man’,$args[s]); return $args; } Where $args[s] holds the search string.