Exclude content from search results

  • coryarobertson

    (@coryarobertson)


    13 years, 6 months ago

    I would like to edit my search functions to only show search results for my posts titles. I had my theme designed for me so things are a bit different than a typical theme. My search.php file looks like this:

    <? get_header()?>
        <div id="sub_header">
            <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/search_form.php'); ?>
        </div>
        <div id="content">

            <div id="left_2_col">

                <div id="search_results">
                    <h2 class="search_results">Search Results</h2>
                    <div id="search_results_top"></div>

                    <h3>Search Results for "<?= get_search_query() ?>". <!-- <span class="showing">Showing 0 - 0 of 0.</span>--></h3>

                    <? if (have_posts()) : ?>
                        <table>
                            <tr>
                                <th>Title</th>
                                <th>Post Date</th>
                                <th>Category</th>
                            </tr>
                        <? $i = 0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $i++; ?>
                            <tr <?=((($i % 2) == 1) ? "class=\"alt\"" : NULL)?>>
                                <td>
                                    <a href="<? the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <? the_title_attribute() ?>"><? the_title() ?></a>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <? the_time('F j, Y') ?>
                                </td>
                                <td>
                                    <? if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mf_page_type', TRUE) == "Blog") echo "Blog"; ?>
                                    <? if (get_post_meta($post->ID, 'mf_page_type', TRUE) == "News") echo "News"; ?>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        <? endwhile; ?>

                        </table>

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  • Joe Hall

    (@redbmedia)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Try this on for size:

    <? get_header()?>
        <div id="sub_header">
            <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/search_form.php'); ?>
        </div>
        <div id="content">

            <div id="left_2_col">

                <div id="search_results">
                    <h2 class="search_results">Search Results</h2>
                    <div id="search_results_top"></div>

                    <h3>Search Results for "<?= get_search_query() ?>". <!-- <span class="showing">Showing 0 - 0 of 0.</span>--></h3>

                    <? if (have_posts()) : ?>
                        <table>
                            <tr>
                                <th>Title</th>
                            </tr>
                        <? $i = 0; while (have_posts()) : the_post(); $i++; ?>
                            <tr <?=((($i % 2) == 1) ? "class=\"alt\"" : NULL)?>>
                                <td>
                                    <a href="<? the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <? the_title_attribute() ?>"><? the_title() ?></a>
                                </td>
                            </tr>
                        <? endwhile; ?>

                        </table>
    Thread Starter coryarobertson

    (@coryarobertson)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    That edit will only remove the date and category columns displayed in my search results. What I would like to do is have my search queries only search through my post titles. For example, if I searched for “wordpress” my return results would only include posts that have “wordpress” in the title as opposed to every post that has “wordpress” in it’s content.

    I hope that makes sense. I don’t think I made that clear in my initial post. Thank you for your reply.

    Joe Hall

    (@redbmedia)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    Cory, what you need then isn’t to edit your theme’s files, but to have a custom search plugin written.

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    13 years, 6 months ago

    You can exclude post content with a filter/action like so…

    <?php
/*
Plugin Name: Don't search post content
*/
add_action( 'posts_search', 'dont_search_post_content', 10000, 1 );
function dont_search_post_content( $search_sql ) {
	global $wpdb;

	if( strpos( $search_sql, 'post_content LIKE' ) )
		$search_sql = preg_replace( "|OR \({$wpdb->posts}.post_content LIKE '(.+)'\)|", '', $search_sql );

	return $search_sql;
}
?>

    Should work with the code currently in WordPress 3.0.1 and 3.1 … 😉

    Install:
    Create a file, anything you like, plonk the code above into that file, and save it with PHP extension (or rename the file so it has a PHP extension). Upload to plugins folder, activate it in the same way you would any other plugin..

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