Metaboxes searchable?

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August 26, 2018 at 4:54 PM #11113

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Ale
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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.
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August 27, 2018 at 9:36 AM #11115
Anh Tran
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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
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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!
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