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
If we look at the source code of get_search_form(), notice that before the form gets rendered, the search_form_format filter hook gets fired. We can use that to add another filter attached to get_search_form where the callback is dependent upon the format. add_filter( ‘search_form_format’, ‘wpse_259716_search_form_format’, 99, 1 ); function wpse_259716_search_form_format( $format ) { if( in_array( $format, … Read more
You can use the posts_orderby filter to alter the order of returned posts. This will run for every query (front and back), so make sure you ensure you want to alter the order by using is_admin, is_search etc. In the example below search results are ordered by post type in ascending order (e.g. page then … Read more
This plugin called “WP Extended Search” looks like it would do the trick.: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/ There’s also this answer that may work for you: Possible to search by author name with default WordPress search function?