search custom fields

  • Ben

    (@jahwork10)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    Hi All,

    I’m having issues related to searching custom fields…

    The custom fields are being generated by the Magic Fields 1 plugin and I have custom search forms on various category pages created in WP Custom Fields Search.

    The problem is best described in an older post :

    “I am using WP Custom Fields Search plugin which is working well, even when adding duplicate fields to permit more than one category or tag to be searched.

    However, I would like to be able for the user to set the multiple category/tag searches to OR rather than the default AND.

    If a user puts in two categories to search (say “letter” and “drawings”) it results in zero results because there is nothing in BOTH letter and drawings categories.

    Ideally I would like it to display all results in EITHER category, rather than BOTH and in a perfect world I would like for the user to be able to choose this each time.”

    Any help would be very much appreciated!

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  • Thread Starter Ben

    (@jahwork10)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    To explain further on what I’m trying to do ………

    I’m creating a Teacher’s Directory where every Teacher has their own post/page within State/Region categories, and parent categories of Country.

    On those Country category pages I would like search forms where you can select a State/Region (from a dropdown list) and then Courses Available (from checkboxes). The Courses Available are custom fields and I would like the search function to find results that match ANY of the courses selected – not ALL. In other words, if a user selects Course 1 and Course 2, I would like search results displayed to include Teachers who only teach Course 1 and only teach Course 2.

    If anyone has any suggestions on how I could go about this better than with the plugins above, it would be most welcome. 🙂

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