Questions tagged [search]
The method by which users find information on your WordPress site
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Admin Area Custom Type Search By Meta Fields Without Title & Content
I have a custom post type that uses several meta fields. In the admin area I would like to be able to search by those meta fields. I have implemented this currently in my functions.php with this code:
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Exclude custom taxonomy from search results and archive pages
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I have the following code working. It excludes the taxonomy from the search results. However, I would like this only to happen if a user is not logged in. The code below is taking effect for ...
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How do I get the total number of categories in a list of search results?
I want to display the total count of categories in a set of search results.
For example, "10 posts found in 3 categories." (Assuming that each post has only 1 category.)
Right now, my solution is to ...
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Should I hint table index for search query on wp_post
I'm currently inspecting a WordPress setup with multiple custom post types that should be included into search results.
The database query for a search after the word Search looks like this:
SELECT ...
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searching in custom meta field
I have multiples custom field in a post type. i can save data, update and display, all fine. now I'm doing the search engine. as it is a library, it must be possible to search in specific fields (...
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Searchable meta value in user.php
I have created a new column in the user table list (admin page) and would like the column to be searchable in the search query, How do i add the meta to the search users query ?
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* Create user ...
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How to search only by post title and category?
I'm currently working on my first theme (based on underscores) and just realized the search does not return any results if I input a category name, nor does it give accurate results when searching ...
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Unable to create custom search results template page
I'm trying to create a search results page for our website and referring to the following documentation:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page
I created a new page template searchpage....
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Custom Post Type not appearing in website search
I've built a custom theme from scratch for a client and have a few custom post types. For one in particular, FAQ, I wanted to hide it from showing individual posts (posts would only appear on its ...
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How to search media library alt text and title fields
I need to be able to search in the WordPress media library alt text and title fields.
I've previously used a plugin called Media search Enhanced by 1fixdotio (https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-...
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Automatically adding category filter based on search string
Like ebay and amazon, i want to implement something on my site wherby if someone searches e.g red dresses then the category "Women's dresses" is only searched within.
As seen as below, a generic ...
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Search not working with title and content
I am working on search. I am able to search post by tag and category but not able to search by title and content.
I tried below code but it's not working. Would you help me out?
$getSearch = ...
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Make Wordpress Search for Both Main Domain and Subdomain
I have check through Stackexchange, but no topic is similar to this topic to this.
Is there any way to make WordPress search work for both main site and subdomain?
Both of them have two separate ...
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How to search Woo Commerce products with punctuation in title?
How do I modify the default WooCommerce Product search so that products with punctuation in the title can be found without including the punctuation in the query?
For example, if I have a product ...
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Search query - exact post title match
I have a bunch of posts titled something like this...
English Language 2015
English Language 2016
English Language 2017
English Language 2018
And on each one of these posts I have a dropdown select ...
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