Thread Starter
HM
(@hcm)
Hello? Anyone know the answer to this?
I want to know how to search my custom ‘pages’ which i have created with wordpress? is there a similar pluggin for this?
Found the page search puggin: http://randomfrequency.net/wordpress/search-pages/
Your best bet for hcm is to do a good google search for wordpress plugins which can search custom fields.
There was another thread on this as well, with a link to the old Wiki and a search hack for 1.2:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=12988
Unfortunately search facilities in WP is not my strong point, so I’m not sure what it would take to get this up to speed in 1.5.
Thread Starter
HM
(@hcm)
Before posting my original message I had already done those 2 things (done extensive searching via google and tried to figure out how to make the old 1.2 hack work with 1.5) and had come up with no solutions. I have no problem trying to hack the WP code to get custom field searching to work but my problem is that I have no idea WHERE in the WP code the search functions are located.
I found the answer. Or rather i got someone to write one for me 🙂
http://randomfrequency.net/wordpress/search-meta/
Thread Starter
HM
(@hcm)
This works great to certain a point, but I need further customization. How do I form a search query that will search for ONLY meta_values that are in the postmeta table AND are equal to a certain meta_key?
Example:
Search for format=CD
where meta_key=format and meta_value=CD
As it is now if I just do a search for CD any post that has the word CD in it will be listed. I only want the posts listed that have a custom field value of format=CD. Any ideas on how to do this? Does the search code have to be hacked further to get this to work, or is there already a way to select the info I want via a custom query string?
Jerome’s Keywords, seems to be a little closer to what you’re looking for – http://www.vapourtrails.ca/wp-keywords
Thread Starter
HM
(@hcm)
ohdear – No that isn’t what I’m looking for. But thanks for trying.
To clarify: I’m looking for a way to form a search query for a meta_key AND meta_value combination, not just certain keywords in the meta_value field. There will be MANY different meta_key/meta_value combinations.
At this point it looks like I’ll just have to write my own plugin.
Sorry, I just meant the plug-in was more relevant to customizing the search, more of a base to start off on, rather than meeting your requirements.
Has anyone found an update/solution to this thread? It would be REALLY nice to be able to have an ‘advanced search’ that included things like this.
e.g.
Search:
if custom_field_key == “xxx” and custom_field_value == “yyy”
Thread Starter
HM
(@hcm)
I have not yet tried either of these but I found 2 other search plugins that might work:
Jerome’s Search – Simple plugin that replaces the default WordPress search with a slightly improved version that searches post meta values, post excerpts and pages.
http://vapourtrails.ca/wp-plugins
Pages Advanced – Pages Advanced is a plugin for WordPress. It gives you more advanced options for pages.
http://www.lightvoid.com/wordpress_themes_26_plugins/pages_advanced_/
