Request: Include meta data in search

  • Resolved Angela

    (@g33kg0dd3ss)


    11 years, 2 months ago

    Really digging this plugin…it has saved me loads of time and frustration. 🙂

    My only real feature request would be to include meta data values in the search routine. (The “Admin Meta Search” plugin adds this functionality to the admin Posts panel, for example.)

    I have several posts with a meta key/value pair of “Prop”/”Christmas.” I need to change all instances of “Christmas” to “Winter.” It would be ideal to search for “Christmas” in the Bulk Editor, have all qualifying posts listed, then enter “Prop”/”Winter” and save the changes.

    Please consider adding this functionality. It would make an already good plugin even better. 🙂

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/custom-field-bulk-editor/

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  • Plugin Author sparkweb

    (@sparkweb)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll definitely consider it, but I just don’t have the space to be adding functionality to the plugin at this time. I think your best bet is to edit the db directly. You can download the adminer plugin to get access to the db and then just do a query like this:

    UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = 'Winter' WHERE meta_value = 'Christmas' AND meta_key = 'Prop'

    Easy-peasy 🙂

    Thread Starter Angela

    (@g33kg0dd3ss)

    11 years, 2 months ago

    No worries! I found a way to do what I needed, but the meta search would be a nice quality-of-life feature. 🙂 Thanks again!

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