Problem is that ‘s’ param is a standard query param of WordPress, when you use the url /custom-search?s=mysearchstring your are saying to WordPress to retrieve the page ‘custom-search’ that contain the string ‘mysearchstring’ and this bring a 404. You have 2 possibilities: use another query string name, something like /custom-search?cs=mysearchstring then inside the page template … Read more
Add this to your child themes functions file using a code editor like Notepad++. You will need to change the page I.D’s in the code to your own. Exclude Specific Pages From Search Results add_filter( ‘pre_get_posts’, ‘exclude_pages_search_when_logged_in’ ); function exclude_pages_search_when_logged_in($query) { if ( $query->is_search && is_user_logged_in() ) $query->set( ‘post__not_in’, array( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 … Read more
@PieterGoosen has a good description on why your pre_get_posts callback is giving you a problem. Here’s an alternative workaround to restrict the native search widget to the post post type: /** * Restrict native search widgets to the ‘post’ post type */ add_filter( ‘widget_title’, function( $title, $instance, $id_base ) { // Target the search base … Read more
There two things that you need to do to make this happen: 1) Create metadata for the data for each event 2) Query for the posts using meta_query For #1, you need to add a metabox that allows the user to add a date for the event. This data should be stored as metadata using … Read more
Why don’t you add a custom button with the functionality you require? You could attach a JavaScript method to do the search and replace as requested? Check out: How to add a custom button to the tinyMCE toolbar? Hope this helps…
Create a file search.php inside your theme-folder. In this file you can design the search page and its functionality. Typically search page looks like this, <?php /** * The template for displaying search results pages * * @link https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#search-result * * @package Torba_Market */ get_header(); ?> <div class=”container”> <section id=”primary” class=”content-area”> <main id=”main” class=”site-main” role=”main”> … Read more
Gladly I’ve written two plugins for that yesterday: Filter/Core That’s what a search query part looks like inside the posts_search filter: ‘ AND (((wp_XX_posts.post_title LIKE ‘%test%’) OR (wp_XX_posts.post_content LIKE ‘%test%’))) ‘ where wp_XX_ is just the $wpdb->prefix for my WPSE test site inside my local MU installation. Plugin #1 – drop searching post types that … Read more
Put any of the filters in the functions.php Using pre get posts // Filter the search page add_filter(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘search_pre_get_posts’); function search_pre_get_posts($query) { // Verify that we are on the search page that that this came from the event search form if($query->query_vars[‘s’] != ” && is_search()) { // If “s” is a positive integer, assume post … Read more
I just had a project where i needed to create a search by user meta form and i ended up creating a shortcode for it, i just altered it a bit to show you how to make it work with your fields, so just paste this code inside your theme’s functions.php file or a plugin … Read more
You can use template_redirect. Here a simple redirection function. add_action( ‘template_redirect’, ‘se219663_template_redirect’ ); function se219663_template_redirect() { global $wp_rewrite; if ( is_search() && ! empty ( $_GET[‘s’] ) ) { $s = sanitize_text_field( $_GET[‘s’] ); // or get_query_var( ‘s’ ) $location = “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”; $location .= trailingslashit( $wp_rewrite->search_base ); $location .= user_trailingslashit( urlencode( $s ) ); $location … Read more