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What you want to do is use the pre_get_posts action to exclude the post ID from the search results query. This allows you to “pre” set some elements of the query, including an array of post IDs to exclude with the “post__not_in” value. Suppose the ID of your privacy policy it 11, then you’d pass … Read more

Try this. It’s a function that will filter the search query and replace any smart quotes with their “dumb” equivalent. <?php /** * Filter smart quotes out of a search query. * Replace them with “dumb” quotes. * * @param WP_Query $query Instance of WP_Query. */ function filter_search_smart_quotes( $query ) { if ( $query->is_search() ) … Read more

So you want more general autocomplete, rather than something specific (like blog tags for example)? If you use (or will consider using) Google Custom Search (which is very popular option to replace native WP search), they made it quite easy to enable native autocomplete with it. See: Autocompletion of queries in Custom Search Control over … Read more

Try this: function filter_search($query) { if ($query->is_search) { $query->set(‘post_type’, array(‘post’, ‘page’)); }; return $query; }; add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘filter_search’);

What you basically want to do is to change the SQL query being done to group the result of the query by category The code taken from here groups by performing a sort by category. You can place the following code in your themes search.php file <?php add_filter(‘posts_join’, create_function(‘$a’, ‘global $wpdb; return $a . ” … Read more

Add this temporarily to your functions.php. It will break things but you can see the WHERE clause. Be sure to remove it because things won’t work right if you leave it there. function dump_where($w){ var_dump($w); } add_filter(‘posts_where’,’dump_where’); The first thing you should notice is that the % signs get escaped. Remove those and WordPress will … Read more

Here is one idea using the posts_clauses filter: function search_posts_clauses($clauses, $query){ if(!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search()){ global $wpdb; // replace post_content with meta_key and meta_value: $searchterms = explode(” “,get_query_var(“s”)); foreach($searchterms as $searchterm){ $from = sprintf(“{$wpdb->posts}.post_content LIKE ‘%%%s%%'”, $searchterm); $to = sprintf(“{$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_key = ‘cities’ AND {$wpdb->postmeta}.meta_value=”%s” “, $searchterm); $clauses[“where”] = str_replace($from, $to, $clauses[“where”]); } $clauses[“join”] = … Read more