Comments on: Customised search scope in WordPress

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:27:53 +0000

Thanks adsf. Yep, that seems like a better approach.

Will have to fix my contact page link too

By: asdf

asdf — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:28:59 +0000

I just wanted to email you what I consider proper solution, but your contact page doesn’t work. Well, here’s the snippet from my theme’s search.php:

http://pastebin.com/XqsUbY0a

Of course, don’t copy it verbatim, it’s specific for my use case. I didn’t filter by category, I needed a filter by parent page, but the logic is the same. You could filter by category by adding ‘category_name’ => ‘abc’ in $query_args (I didn’t test that, though).

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:54:29 +0000

Good point adsf, I hadn’t realised that paging would not reflect the filtered results. Well, I did say it was a hacky solution

Yes, I think you’re right, the better solution would be to construct a custom query, asking it to return only the category you are interested in, based on the scope variable.

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:33:20 +0000

This is a bad solution, the results count and paging is still for the full set of results. A correct solution would modify the loop query, I still have to figure out how exactly to do that.

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Fri, 22 May 2009 08:17:53 +0000

In that case it may be better to run a custom query on the WP database.

I think you could still detect your various search parameters via $_GET variable. Then use those parameters to construct a custom query using $wpdb->get_results(). See http://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query for more info.

Good luck!

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 22 May 2009 06:40:02 +0000

i would appreciate it if you do post up a working example.

my problem is i want to be able to custom my search to ONLY certain categories, and ONLY by certain fields (Titles) or by custom fields (actors.)

as you may guess, i’m doing a movie review site.

any help is appreciated, thanks

By: Ben Hayes

Ben Hayes — Tue, 05 May 2009 09:32:55 +0000

Hi Bjarni

I have a working example but currently on a development server only, for a client project. Guess I could make a public working version sometime when I get a moment, if you think that’s useful.

Ben

By: Bjarni

Bjarni — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:27:32 +0000

Hi there, do you have a working example of the above? sounds good.