By: Prem Tiwari | Last Updated: | In: WordPress, WordPress Snippets
If you are using the WordPress as your business website and also using the custom post type. Also, want to include the custom post type in your search to extend your site search functionalities.
Please keep your close attention in this post as I am going to share the how to extend search functionality to include custom post meta. Open your functions.php files from your current activated themes folder and add the below code at the end of the file and save it.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | /* * Extend wp search to include custom post meta */ function custom_search_query( $query ) { if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_search ) { $query->set('meta_query', array( array( 'key' => '__meta_key__', 'value' => $query->query_vars['s'], 'compare' => 'LIKE' ) )); $query->set('post_type', '__your_post_type__'); // optional }; } add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'dc_custom_search_query'); |
Prem Tiwari is the founder of FreeWebMentor.com and also a professional developer who has vast experience in PHP and open source technologies. Apart from this, he is a blogger by hobby and also he has been a regular speaker of WordPress sessions in various IT Companies. View all posts by Prem Tiwari
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