Comments on: WordPress Custom Field Search Plugin

By: author

author — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:17:35 +0000

Totally awesome! We have our writers doing the work in Word documents which are then imported into wordpress and a custom field saves the word document file name of the source article. Then a project manager goes in and puts the articles into the correct categories – now finally we can search for the source file name do a quick edit and set the category. 4 SQL LIKE statements in this example are quicker than going into each post one by one. Well done! We have saved this to our super long custom wordpress so wordpress can behave.

Simon

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:39:09 +0000

Awesome! I’ve been pulling my hair over including a custom field in the search for a client. Nothing I’ve tried has worked, except for this! Thanks for sharing!

By: Lizz

Lizz — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:15:57 +0000

This is just great! I tweaked some of your codes and tada! Thank you so mcuh, it totally helped me in my project (that is still underconstuction).

By: Rotten Elf

Rotten Elf — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:56:59 +0000

I was under the impression that using the custom google search option wouldn’t work because “custom fields” don’t appear within google search? However, I also always couldn’t understand how a custom field would be discriminated against by google. Can you confirm that Google Search would still read the custom fields within a wordpress site?

By: Rotten Elf

Rotten Elf — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:00:05 +0000

Thanks. I’ve been scouring the internet for about 4 hours trying to find a workable solution for a custom field search code to input into one of my projects. I too have a site where custom fields are the only true functional option, and they are just as important as the normal post content. Hopefully your code works for me, and if it doesn’t, I think it won’t be too far off from the end solution. I appreciate your codework and I give major props to you for putting in the effort to find a solution for this, as well as publishing it!!!!!

- Rotten Elf

By: John Hoff

John Hoff — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:55:26 +0000

James,

You are correct that my code is only accepting a single search input and searching over multiple fields. Logically the search is selecting the posts that have match all of the keywords in the post title and content. I extended this to include custom fields.

It is possible to have multiple inputs and search fields. So long as you are still using the ‘s’ variable in your request, WordPress will call the search routines. You could use the join and group by filters above with a custom where filter to pull it off. It would still be a pretty nasty section of coding–but that’s what you get when you’re building SQL statements on the fly.

I am currently not available for consulting. With a new baby and new job there just isn’t enough time.

Best of luck.

By: James Maabadi

James Maabadi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:35:37 +0000

Hi John, first of all, Thank you for this code! I love seeing examples on making WP a more powerful CMS.

I was hoping to get some clarification, this is meant to take a single search input and search over multiple fields from what I can see.

Is it possible to have multiple inputs and search specific fields. In my case, I have people listed as posts (their name as the title), each as a state custom field and an occupation custom field.

On my search form I’d really like to have a text input for the name, drop down for state, and a drop down for the occupation, each to search the corresponding fields of the post.

Even further, are you available for some consulting to help me add a few more features to my WP. Please contact me if so.

By: Tom Lany

Tom Lany — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:06:30 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! I have been needing some way to search through authors (that I store in custom fields) for along time, and this works wonderfully!

Thanks!

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By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:20:35 +0000

John, thanks for the code, man. This has been a huge help.