I think it is better that you do this inside the WordPress install, not on the .htaccess. Is not easy to maintain and maybe a problem, if you have more results for a search. You can use the follow source, write in a small plugin and activate. If the search result have only one result, … Read more
It’s probably SQL Full Text Search what you’re looking for. Maybe this tutorial helps you forward: http://www.blrf.net/howto/49_Wordpress__How_to_implement_MySQL_full_text_search_.html There is also a WP plugin with Full Text Search capability, but it’s not updated for a while: http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/search-unleashed/
Here, wpe_excerpt is not defined so the page is erroring out.
This is what I was looking for: /?s=+&author_name=username
I found the solution. I had to flush rules after I change the search base with the code on the edited question. Here is the final code: $lang = get_bloginfo(“language”); if ( $lang == ‘de-DE’ ) { add_action(‘init’, ‘search_base_german’); function search_base_german() { $search_slug = ‘suche’; // change slug name $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’]->search_base = $search_slug; $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’]->flush_rules(); } }
What if you use IN operator and split the search term in a words array: $args = array( ‘role’ => ‘Subscriber’, ‘meta_query’ => array( array( ‘key’ => ‘membership_class’, ‘value’ => ‘Full’, ‘compare’ => ‘=’, ‘type’ => ‘CHAR’, ), array( ‘relation’ => ‘OR’, array( ‘key’ => ‘first_name’, ‘value’ => explode( ‘ ‘, $usersearch ), ‘compare’ => … Read more
I think it is better that you switch to the current beta, version 2, publish on github. This version is much better in possibilities and performance. In this version it is possible that you get a result for the search term, Iike GET /wp-json/wp/v2/posts?s=awesome.
A quick test on a default install with TwentyEleven confirms this, and I’m not sure why this is the case, however there is a way you can do this via your functions.php. add a hidden field to the form with your own query var: <input type=”hidden” name=”my_type” value=”page” /> or: <input type=”hidden” name=”my_type” value=”post,page” /> … Read more
One of my favorite ways to do this is to use the Factious plugin. It is still fairly basic and only has a Sidebar widget by default. However, it has an extenable API(ish thing) that lets you write code to place it elsewhere. The reasons why I like it are this: Written by people who … Read more
You can try a plugin to do this: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-404/ Reads the page URL and tries to find a page/post that it might match and redirect to it. Found out about this plugin from: http://www.aebeta.com/web-hosting/seo/7-seo-friendly-404-plugin-for-wordpress.html