I feel bad for answering my own question on here, but here’s what I did. I created a custom search template, a custom searchform.php and changed my header.php to reflect my custom search page. What I did is rename the search box names to search instead of s to get around WordPress automatically running search.php … Read more
It’s bad practice to do so purely because the Search Results page was found it just returned no results. A 404 would be used if the search page didn’t exist.
If you save the the price in a meta field, you can query posts using meta_query: <?php $the_posts = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘price’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value_num’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘price’, ‘value’ => ‘100’, ‘type’ => ‘NUMERIC’, ‘compare’ => ‘>=’ ) ) )); ?> <?php while ( $the_posts->have_posts() … Read more
The standard search results can also be formatted with a theme file, by default search.php. You don’t need to create a “fake” page for that. If you don’t include any content from the page, and only use the theme file, you can just rename searchpage.php to search.php and it will work. If you do have … Read more
The Sphinx Search website lists three wordpress plugins on its Plugin Page. Maybe one (or more) of them does what you want? Voce Connect. WordPress Plugin. Ivinco. WordPress Plugin. Gigaom. WordPress Plugin. Filters WordPress’ core WP Query to allow interoperability with and improve performance of other plugins and existing queries, including core taxonomy queries.
You can pass s=%20 as your search string, but thats kinda hackish. If what you are trying to achieve is to use your search.php template but with “controled” search results, consider using this: <?php global $query_string; // fetch query string being used query_posts($query_string . ‘&posts_per_page=20’) // add your terms to it. ?>
If you transform your main website’s WordPress into a multi-site environment, you can move blog.yourdomain.com to be a network site. Once you do this, you could use the Multisite Global Search plugin to add a widget that searches all network sites. It would be easy to move your standalone blog.yourwebsite.com to a network site: export … Read more
I think your question has already been asked. You can add additional terms as post tags, and then these tags can be added to the search query via filters. See answer.
Search Terms Dotifier: Here’s one idea using the request filter to append “dotted” words of two or three characters that don’t contain any dots, to the current search terms. So if your search string is for example: The LA Dreams it will become: The LA Dreams L.A. Here’s a demo plugin to modify the default … Read more
You could try using several regexps to only search outside angle brackets: function wpse159789_posts_search( $search, $query ) { global $wpdb; if ( ! preg_match( “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/” . $wpdb->posts . ‘\.post_content LIKE \’%(.+)%\”https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, $search, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE ) ) { return $search; } $search_str = stripslashes( $matches[1][0] ); // Cater for closed angle pairs embedded in the search … Read more