Metaboxes searchable?

Ale
Home / General / Metaboxes searchable?

Custom Fields
Re-Envisioned › Support › General › Metaboxes searchable?

  • Creator
    Topic
  • August 26, 2018 at 4:54 PM #11113
    Resolved Ale
    Participant

    Hello,

    I am wondering how can I make the contents of several meta boxes searchable by WordPress? The metaboxes are text, textarea and wysiwyg type.

    Thanks.

  • Creator
    Topic
Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Author
    Replies
  • August 27, 2018 at 9:36 AM #11115
    Anh Tran
    Keymaster

    Hi Ale,

    There is a nice tutorial showing how to search WordPress by all custom fields. It requires some coding and works for all text fields.

    Or you can modify the query like this:

    add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
        return;
    }
    $query->set( 'meta_query', [
        'relation' => 'OR',
        [
            'key' => 'field_id1',
            'value' => '"' . get_search_query()  . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        ],
        [
            'key' => 'field_id2',
            'value' => '"' . get_search_query()  . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        ],
        [
            'key' => 'field_id2',
            'value' => '"' . get_search_query()  . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        ]
    ] );
} );
    August 27, 2018 at 1:08 PM #11125
    Ale
    Participant

    Thanks Anh,

    I’m not sure why it isn’t working but when I add the code from the tutorial to my functions.php it simply doesn’t change the results at all.

    If I add teh following code, then the search is broken and I can’t find anything at all.

    add_action( 'pre_get_posts', function( $query ) {
    if ( is_admin() || ! $query->is_main_query() ) {
        return;
    }
    $query->set( 'meta_query', [
        'relation' => 'OR',
        [
            'key' => 'mb_someidused',
            'value' => '"' . get_search_query()  . '"',
            'compare' => 'LIKE'
        ]
    ] );
} );
    August 27, 2018 at 2:11 PM #11128
    Ale
    Participant

    Sorry, my mistake. It is working, what is not possible is to find items in a second query taht shows the fields, I will solve it. Thanks!

  • Author
    Replies
Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.