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1. Fotis K
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I've been trying to implement a custom search that won't only search posts but also media (by they're titles and custom fields).
   Before going for the whole thing, I performed a little test: I wanted the search to display only posts of type 'attachment'(media) and I thought I could achieve this by putting the following piece of code in my functions.php:
   

   function SearchFilter($query) {
     if ($query->is_search) {
       $query->set('post_type', 'attachment');
       $query->set('post_status', 'inherit');
       $query->set('post_parent', NULL);
     }
     return $query;
   }
   
   add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

   Unfortunately, no luck. When searching it doesn't display the (unattached) media files. Any idea what might be wrong?

2. Fotis K
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I guess asking the post_parent to be NULL was the problem. My final working code(searching posts and media) is the following and should be placed in functions.php:

   function SearchFilter($query) {
     if ($query->is_search) {
       $query->set('post_type', array('attachment','post','page'));
       $query->set('post_status', array('publish','inherit'));
     }
     return $query;
   }
   add_action('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

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