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Search that will look in custom field, post title and post content

I am looking for a way to perform a search, and while performing the search, it checks a custom field named keywords, the post title and the post content. If any of those fields have results like what ...
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Custom WP_Query for WordPress Search Results with meta_query

I am using a custom query to generate my search results. The code I am using works perfectly without the meta_query variables in my arguments array. I am trying to compare multiple custom fields with ...
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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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Advanced Search Wordpress

I am trying to create an Advanced Search in Wordpress. The advanced search form is made of 3 dependent dropdown boxes (category: type, sub-category: brand, sub-sub-category: model). It also has 5 ...
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sequnce in enter words in wordpss search using query

I have a problem in creating advanced search with custom query and using $wpdb->get_results($query , OBJECT); In Normal search in wordpress when we search xxx yyyy or search yyyy xxx we have same ...
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Custom field Search with Relavanssi

The site I'm working on is a talent website that has actors names, headshots, and resume all created with post_title, featured images, and custom fields. I am using Relavanssi to make my search ...
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Combine Two Plugins to Filter by Custom Taxonomy and Custom Field

I'd like to give my users the possibility to filter the posts by Categories, Tags, and Custom Field values. Search/filter form would be multiple fields: Field One City:[categories with a parent ...
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How to exclude custom fields from search queries?

I'm building a hotel search engine and I've first created a custom content type "hotel" with Types & Views Toolset. I'm using "Search everything" plugin to query custom fields and custom taxonomy ...
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Exclude custom post type from search by custom field value?

I've been unable to find anything on how to do this, or if it's even possible. What I want to do is not display results of search in custom post type "resources" on which "resource_usertype" (key) is ...
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Filter results with custom field values and dropdown

I need to filter posts by a custom field value. My specific example: User browse to products > category 1 > subcategory A. ALL "subcategory A" items (products custom post type) are displayed as ...
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Custom Fields vs Separate Table

I have a client who wants to be able to upload Posts using information stored in a CSV file. I've already got this portion working. Just recently, I changed the CSV File Uploader from pure PHP to an ...
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Using meta query ('meta_query') with a search query ('s')

Trying to build a search that not only searches the defaults (title, content etc) but also a specific custom field. My current query: $args = array( 'post_type' => 'post', 's' => $query, ...
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Displaying and searching Custom Posts

I'm trying to convert my existing web site from old-school HTML to WordPress, and have created a series of Custom Posts for my whisky tasting notes. However, I'm stuck trying to set up a page that ...
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Custom search with meta fields

I made a custom search form with text fields and dropdown. Now, my form is in its own template file - sidebar-search.php. I have also made the searchform.php which should get the data from sidebar ...
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Add custom attributes to a post

My blog is mainly composed of posts describing hiking. Actually, since I just moved from a Wordpress.com blog to a self-hosted Wordpress blog, every hike is inserted in a simple post. However, every ...
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How do I paginate search results for custom post types?

I have a Custom Post Type called "cars" that stores several custom fields along with the standard Title/Description fields. I need users to be able to search through the CPT based on the custom fields ...
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Searching Custom Fields

I would like to know how I can set up a form (separate from the normal search form), that will allow me to search through a particular custom post type. Within my defined custom post type I have 2 ...
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Wordpress Search documentation: how to improve search query using taxonomy terms, custom meta fields?

I'm trying to understand how Wordpress search works. I haven't found much info on the Codex. Arguably, search is not the best WP feature. Even Wordpress.org uses Google Search. I would like to make a ...
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Search ONLY by meta key / meta values

I'm almost there on this one. On functions.php i have this: function base_home_product_post_type( $query ) { if($query->is_search() && $_POST['box'] == 'sku') { ...
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search also in taxonomy, tags and custom fields

I have found many answers separately for Taxonomy, Custom fields and Tags, most of them outdated. But how to combine a search in: - designed custom fields of a custom post - custom taxonomy terms - ...
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filter custom field values $min $max

The user needs to query posts by entering a $minPrice, $maxPrice and a category value. Here is my query which returns no results: function result() { $result = array( 'cat' => ...
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filter search custom field query

I'm looking for way to filter search results. This is what I have so far a custom post type of "doctors" in each "doctor" post, there are numerous custom fields (male or female, location, ...
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Need small coding with Custom Fields Search

WP Custom Fields Search is a great plugin but I've a problem regarding the plugin returning results using the homepage. When I click the submit button, results are shown on the homepage instead of ...
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How do I use wp_query for WordPress search?

I would like to create a custom search form to search posts based on the values of about 4 custom fields. I tried using wp_query to achieve this but so far my biggest problem is that the I don't get ...
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Including Custom Meta with posts_where query

I have been looking around to see how to do this but the solutions i've found don't seem to be working for me. I'm making an AJAX powered search for some wordpress custom post types. I have got ...
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How to stick custom post at the top in search results

I'm trying to stick a post in the search results for the value and meta_key meta_value. If the search results in the post is meta_key - sticky and meta_value - fatured, the display on top of these ...
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How can I change the admin search posts fields?

I have a custom post type that includes many custom fields. I would like to add them as a search target to admin search. Currently the admin search searches only the content and the title, I would ...
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How to let users choose where to search for posts?

I have no code to let you correct/see, I'm still in 'thinking stage'. What i would like to achieve is this: A real estate website with a few search functionalities. This new agency (REALLY NEW we have ...
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How to show content of custom fields in search results?

I was able to include the pages where there are custom fields in search results but I managed not to display the content when there is nothing in the content. Is there a way to include the content of ...
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Search everything (posts, pages, tags, cpt, meta)

I would like to know how to use the built in wordpress search to return results from all content on my site. Specifically, I want to search; posts pages tags custom post type (portfolio) custom ...
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Custom Fields Not in Search Results

I noticed that the content of my custom fields is not in my search results. Is there a good remedy for this? I could just hardcode my content into page templates but I would like the content to be ...
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Advanced search form with filters for custom taxonomies and custom fields

I'd like to build an advanced search form for a specific custom post type, having filters for that custom type's custom fields and custom taxonomies AND for another custom type's properties (fields ...
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Including Database Generated Pages in Site Search [closed]

Our library uses a separate little php/mysql app and wordpress template pages to display lists of resources for users. The resources are not included in site search, of course, since the pages are ...
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Searching with Multiple (Parallel) Criteria on Custom Fields?

I'm just an basic Wordpress user. I need to make search box with multiple criteria inputs (multiple conditions) to search inside various Custom Fields. For example including following Custom Fields: ...
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Taxonomy or Custom Field

I'm creating a network that has profile pages for authors (custom post type) on the main site, where I've created a few non-hierarchical taxonomies to help users sort through the authors. These ...
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Is there a way to do multiple ordering on a multiple meta_query?

I'm experimenting with searches and multiple criterias and ordering. Let's say we have a real estate site, all posts have 2 custom fields (price and surface), and we want the visitor to be able to ...
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Search Custom Post Type Custom Fields

There are tutorials that explain how to limit a search to a specific category. My question is, is there a way to configure wordpress' search to, within a custom post type, search for a custom field ...
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how to search in custom fields & custom taxonomy for custom search

I have a custom search which is a form that submits to the same page and uses wp_query to filter the results for a jobs site that I would also like the keyword search to also search in custom fields ...
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Custom search using custom fields, post type, and custom taxonomy [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Include custom taxonomy term in search I need to create a search on a certian post type and then be able to have a checkboxes and dropdowns to search custom fields and ...
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Will multiple category descriptions effect my search engine optimization?

I plan to use the category descriptions as outputted content into my posts for site user searches within my site, but I want to know when I make the site live to search engines will that presence of ...
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Including custom fields in search?

I use custom fields for lots of my content on both Posts and Pages, so that half of the text will be in the main post body and the other half in a custom field. Unfortunately, when doing this only ...
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Search multiple custom fields by using meta_query

I'm trying to create a search results listing for a custom post type and the problem I'm running in to is with the way the 'meta_query' parameter is stringing the passed values together. It appears ...
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Filter custom posts using auto populated dropdown selectors

I've created a custom post type named agent. I have a page that lists all agents. When I add an agent I have a whole series of custom meta boxes that can be filled out, region, specialty, ...
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Extending the search context in the admin list post screen

I have a created a custom post type and have attached some custom fields to it. Now I would like for the search that authors can perform on the custom post list screen (in the admin backend) to also ...
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Custom search: by post data and post metadata?

I'm struggling with a WordPress search function. Maybe it will just help if someone can explain to me how the built in WordPress function works. But here's what I want: Two search fields, by name ...