Custom search with custom fields | ww.wp.xz.cn

Resolved Araminho
(@araminho)

13 years, 2 months ago

Hi. I want to make a custom search with custom fields. I have 3 questions for that.
1) How can I get all options of a multiselect field, in order to add that into my search form?
2) Inside search.php how can I get posts with certain field values?
3) I am not sure if that is possible, but anyway. Can I get all values of a text field that were inserted in posts? For example, I have “Color” text field, and in different posts some values were inserted – red, blue, black etc. Can I get those values while building the search form?
I will apreciate any help.

http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/custom-content-type-manager/

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Plugin Contributor fireproofsocks
(@fireproofsocks)

13 years, 2 months ago

The short answer here is that custom searches can be hard. Google has spent billions making it look easy, but there are a lot of tricky aspects to searching, especially when you’re building filters against your own data model.

Have a look at the wiki — I’ve spent about as much time creating it as I have creating the plugin: https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki

1. See https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/get_custom_field_meta

2. The GetPostsQuery class is very flexible (more-so than the WP classes it aims to replace), but it will have some limitations when it comes to repeatable fields. See https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/get_posts

3. See https://code.google.com/p/wordpress-custom-content-type-manager/wiki/get_unique_values_this_custom_field

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