Title: Multiple search forms
Last modified: August 8, 2020
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# Multiple search forms
* Resolved [justmigrating](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justmigrating/)
* (@justmigrating)
* [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/)
* I have two search forms on my site: one that searches only a subset of pages
on the site and the other that searches blog posts. Each search form has a hidden
field, search-type. Is there a way I can apply the WP Extended Search settings
to only one of my search forms? I’d like to use the WP Extended Search for the
search form that only searches a subset of pages. I have that working, but now
I don’t have a way to search blog posts.
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* Plugin Author [Sumit Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/5um17/)
* (@5um17)
* [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/#post-13239067)
* Hi,
* I am working on new version where you can have multiple forms with multiple settings.
Meanwhile, you can replace `search-type` with `post_type` and the value of this
field should be the post type name e.g.
* ```
```
* to search only pages.
* WPES respect that “post_type” query strings and displays only posts from value
of this field.
* Thanks
* Thread Starter [justmigrating](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justmigrating/)
* (@justmigrating)
* [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/#post-13239256)
* Sumit- Thank you for replying, but I don’t think this helps. I have two search
forms, each with a hidden field of search-type, and two search files (search-
blog.php and search-members.php). Search-blog.php searches blog posts and search-
member.php searches only member pages (this is a membership site). My theme’s
search.php file has the following code so WordPress know which search file to
load.
* if(isset($_GET[‘search-type’])) {
$type = $_GET[‘search-type’]; if($type == ‘
blog’) { load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/search-blog.php’); } elseif($type == ‘
members’) { load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/search-members.php’); } }
* I like your plugin because for my member page search, I can specify the search
only on title and meta keys, and not the content, which is something I can’t
figure out how to code on my own (my custom search includes the content of member
pages, which I don’t want). But I can’t figure out how to use your plugin for
my member page search, and also have a separate standard search for blog posts.
* Plugin Author [Sumit Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/5um17/)
* (@5um17)
* [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/#post-13246163)
* Okay, I got it now.
Currently you can have only one setting for all searches.(
This will be changed in future.)
* I can suggest you keep using WPES for Member search and disable WPES for blog
search.
* To disable the WPES for blog page use the hook [`wpes_enabled`](https://wpes.secretsofgeeks.com/hooks#wpes_enabled)
* Check for search-type like you are checking here and return false.
* ```
$type = $_GET[‘search-type’];
if($type == ‘blog’) {
return false;
}
```
* Let me know if this helps.
* Thread Starter [justmigrating](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justmigrating/)
* (@justmigrating)
* [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/#post-13247108)
* Sumit-
* I was unable to get that to work. However, I found this code on a “hooks” site,
which I put in my functions.php file:
* function wpes_enabled($enabled) {
if (!empty($_GET[‘disable_wpes’])) { return
FALSE; } return $enabled; } add_filter(‘wpes_enabled’, ‘wpes_enabled’);
* And I added the following input to my blog searchform:
* Now, my member search uses the WPES plugin and my blog search does not, which
gives me what I want.
* Plugin Author [Sumit Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/5um17/)
* (@5um17)
* [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-search-forms-2/#post-13265065)
* Good to know if you want to use WP Extended Search with blog search as well then
please take a look at this topic [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extended-search-2-0-beta-1/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-extended-search-2-0-beta-1/)
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