Search page for custom post type

Question

I am new to wordpress and a beginner coder, and i was searching around the net, found solutions but still does not work.

I have custom post type named dlm_download, and my custom search template not working

I added the following to my functions.php file - the code is from this answer by @Ronald.

function template_chooser($template)
{
  global $wp_query;
  $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
  if( $wp_query->is_search && $post_type == 'dlm_download' )
  {
    return locate_template('archive-download.php');
  }
  return $template;
}
add_filter('template_include', 'template_chooser');

Created the archive-download.php

and when i preform my custom search, i get the url like this mysite.com/?dlm_download=699 nothing happens i just get redirected to my home page.

Could please someone tell what i am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You can simply include a custom search function into your search by using pre_get_posts

You can do something like this

function search_filter($query) {
  if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() ) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
      $query->set('post_type', 'your-custom-post-type' );
    }
  }
}

add_action('pre_get_posts','search_filter');