Posted 2 years ago #
Hello, does anybody know if there is a way that you can search posts that have multiple tags with a form using checkboxes?
For example, I have a form that has two checkboxes for two tags Dogs and cats. When I submit I need it to display all of the posts that have the tags dogs and cats. Is this the best way to do that?
Thanks in advance!
Posted 2 years ago #
There used to be some extended search plugin which made a page with all kinds of search options, but I'm still looking for it. For the moment, you might want to look at this one:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-filters/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-search-form/
Posted 2 years ago #
Your theme's search.php works like any other WordPress template file, if you want to set parameters in the query_posts line, then you can...
You'll of course need to add these additional checkboxes to your search form/page, or have you done this already? ...
NOTE: Have you tried querying your search page with tags?
ie. yoursite.com/?s=searchterm&tag=tagone+tagtwo
If you want some help expanding the search i don't mind helping you do so.
Let's start with knowing what you've done or not done so far, and which file(s) you are editting, and we'll go from there.
NOTE: If you intend on posting up any code, please use a pastebin for anything more then a 10 - 20 lines.
.. :)
Posted 2 years ago #
Thanks for everyone's replies. t31os_, I have tried querying my search page like: yoursite.com/?tag=tagone+tagtwo (as I only need to search tags) and it displays the post/s that have those specified tags which is exacting what I'm looking for.
I'm just a little lost as to how I create a search form that will specify those tags that I'm looking for (evidently I'm fairly new to wordpress). I have not created any custom search fields yet. Any help or insight anyone can provide is very much appreciated :)
James
Posted 2 years ago #
Does your theme have a search.php and a search-form.php ..
search.php will hold the markup around the search form (you can use the default theme for an example).
search-form.php will hold the form markup, the inputs etc, if you don't have one create it..
Place something along these lines in there.
<form method="get" id="search" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">
<label for="keywords">Search:</label>
<input type="text" name="s" value="Search" id="keywords" />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>Then all you need do is add a couple of tag inputs..
<input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="tag-one-name" />
<input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="tag-two-name" />Totally untested, but i believe that should work... above 2 lines go wherever you like (inside the <form> code </form> of course)..
If that doesn't work, let me know and i'll go test the code..
Posted 2 years ago #
So long story short, on my search page I want to have a list of all my tags with checkboxes beside them. So when a user checks certain tags, after the click submit, only posts with the selected tags are displayed.
Eg. yoursite.com/?tag=tagone+tagtwo+tagthree displays the only post with all three tags.
How can I edit a search form to include all my tags with a checkbox beside each?
Posted 2 years ago #
Can you still test the code so i know it works?
Can do all tags if you want, but i think it might be worthwhile checking the code works before i extend it further.
Posted 2 years ago #
Sorry t31os_, I didn't see your post before I reposted.
<form method="get" id="search" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">
<label for="keywords">Search:</label>
<input type="text" name="s" value="Search" id="keywords" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="tag['Test1']" value="Test1" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="tag['Test2']" value="Test2" /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>This is the exact code that is in searchform.php. Note I tried searching in the text field for one of my tags (Test1) and it says that it isn't found. Also note that there is no values beside my checkboxes (I'm assuming i've messed up the name value). I've also tried checking the checkboxes with no search results showing.
Any ideas?
Posted 2 years ago #
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="Test1" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="Test2" /><br />Will work, although the query looks a little different, it does behave how it's suppose to.. :)
Now onto all tags.. bear with me a minute..
---- edit below ----
Do you want to show tags that aren't used, ie. they have a 0 count..
Posted 2 years ago #
Place this where you want the checkboxes to appear inside the form..
<?php
$tags = get_terms( 'post_tag' );
//$tags = get_terms( 'post_tag' , array( 'hide_empty' => 0 ) );
$checkboxes = '';
foreach($tags as $tag) :
$checkboxes .=
'<label for="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'">'.$tag->name.'
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="'.$tag->name.'" id="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'" /><br />
</label>';
endforeach;
print $checkboxes;
?>Tested the code to, most certainly works... :)
Posted 2 years ago #
t31os_, thank you so much! One small problem, I just want to display posts that have the both the selected tags. Currently it displays any posts that have either of the tags making the url: yoursite.com/?tag=Test1&tag=Test2. But i need the url to be something like yoursite.com/?tag=Test1+Test2 do you know what I mean?
I feel like I'm actually getting somewhere with this, thanks a million.
James
Posted 2 years ago #
Hmmm, one other thing, it appears to only be displaying the last checked item in the search form, I just added a new post with the tag Test3 and when I check all of the tags in the form then submit, it only displays the item tagged Test3.
My code in searchform.php is as follows:
<form method="get" id="search" action="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>">
<?php
$tags = get_terms( 'post_tag' );
//$tags = get_terms( 'post_tag' , array( 'hide_empty' => 0 ) );
$checkboxes = '';
foreach($tags as $tag) :
$checkboxes .=
'<label for="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'">'.$tag->name.'
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="'.$tag->name.'" id="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'" /><br />
</label>';
endforeach;
print $checkboxes;
?>
<input type="submit" value="Go" />
</form>Any thoughts?
Thanks again.
Posted 2 years ago #
Might be expecting the tag slug, which may differ for you.. (i use the same for test tags)..
Try changing this..
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="'.$tag->name.'" id="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'" /><br />for..
<input type="checkbox" name="tag" value="'.$tag->slug.'" id="tag-'.$tag->term_id.'" /><br />Does that help? :)
RE: The URL, i don't think you'll be able to use the ?tag=test+test2 format, and that's simply a limitation with how WordPress reads the inputs from the search form.
That's not to say it can't be done, but you'd have to write your own search form to do that, the built in search won't do that as it is... or at least i can't see how to do it..
If anyone else has suggestions on how to do it with the built in search as is, i'd welcome an example ..
With a text input, sure i think it's easy enough, but not with the checkboxes (for that particular format)....
Posted 2 years ago #
Hmmm, no. It appears to be doing the same thing as before.
What do you thing?
Posted 2 years ago #
You know i'm not sure it does work correctly, i've just tested some more tags...
I know i've used multi tag searchs before though, so bear with me and i'll write something else...
Posted 2 years ago #
I can manually type in all the tags if needed, the checkboxes don't need to be produced if that makes it any easier. :)
Posted 2 years ago #
I'm such an idiot, the search supports the post method, so it should be valid to switch to using post and use an array for the tags...
Be back after a bit of testing...
Posted 2 years ago #
I'm not certain this is possible unfortunately, if you want a string in the URL then you need to use the get method on the form, and i don't think checkboxes are gonna work for querying in the ?s=term&tag=one+two+three format...
The reason querying directly ?s=term&tag=one+two works is because tag is a public query var that supports + seperated values for querying multiple tags, checkboxes can't request tags in that manner from a form request using the GET method.. (and you'll not have that URL string using POST).
You need an array for querying multiple tags from a form, only the POST method supports this, as far as i'm aware... in using the POST method you do not have a query string like you would when using GET (default WP search form method).. so in short i don't think what you ask is possible...
Sorry i couldn't help more.. though feel free to ask any questions you like, i'm still here.. :)
Posted 2 years ago #
hmmm, any other thoughts as to how I can do this? Basically what I'm trying to do is have rental properties be created in posts that will have either tags or categories assigned to each post. Then I want to make it possible for people to search those posts given the certain tags (like a tag on a post would say that the property is furnished).
Can you think of another way that someone could search property listings using tags at all?
Thanks for all of your help :)
Posted 1 year ago #
Hello GraphixWorks,
were you able to make your search with multiple tags using checkboxes work?
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