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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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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' ] ] ); } );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' ] ] ); } );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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