If you have a user role called “consultant” and you do a search filtering by capability “consultant”, you wouldn’t find anything. Roles and capabilities are different things. Here is the codex reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
You can use the action hook posts_orderby in your child themes functions.php: function changeSearchSort( $orderby, $query ){ global $wpdb; if(!is_admin() && is_search()) { $orderby = $wpdb->prefix.”posts.post_date ASC”; } return $orderby; } add_filter(‘posts_orderby’,’changeSearchSort’,10,2);
What you are seeing is correct. Google display in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) listing as follows: URL Page Title Page Description [ other attributes (potentially) ] Your top result: Tattini Boots – 1860 | Italian English Riding Boots – U.S Links to: https://www.tattiniboots.com/ …your homepage.
You can use get_posts() with a search parameter: $results = get_posts( array( ‘s’ => ‘search term’ ) );
The built in WordPress search doesn’t index PDF file contents, however Google does, there’s a good tutorial on DevPress on replacing WordPress search with Google Custom Search.
Well, the s is not just a name/ID, it’s a query var, as the form’s fields are injected by means of GET or POST to the URL which is then checked for the s query var. If the s query var is defined, the search.php (if present in your theme) will then be called automatically. … Read more
ElasticPress Indexing multiple sites
In line 51: query_posts(“s=”$s”&cat=177”); change to this: $paged = (get_query_var(‘paged’)) ? get_query_var(‘paged’) : 1; query_posts(“s=”$s”&cat=177&paged=$paged”);
Alright, I’ve solved the problem. Turns out that you should never use action=”” for searchform.php. It will work perfectly fine in terms of search results, but it will break the pagination, when using 3.1. Instead, you should use for the form action.
To remove elements from being searched, use the post_search filter to amend the SQL query for the search e.g. only pull in the title. function ni_search_by_title_only( $search, &$wp_query ){ global $wpdb; if ( empty( $search ) ) return $search; $q = $wp_query->query_vars; $n = ! empty( $q[‘exact’] ) ? ” : ‘%’; $search = $searchand … Read more