[Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] restrict results to a custom post type

jlamerto
(@jlamerto)

12 years, 1 month ago

I’m having difficulty coming up with a way to get the live search to restrict results to a custom post type “product” and am hoping someone could help.

I’m using a hidden field in the search form generated in a specific product template to set the post type as suggested else where in the forums e.g….
<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="product" />

Which seems to work well for the form submit results (via Relevanssi) but not so for the live search popup results.

Does anyone know how I can achieve this?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/daves-wordpress-live-search/

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Plugin Author Dana Ross
(@csixty4)

12 years, 1 month ago

The latest beta of version 3.0 should pass all your hidden parameters on to WP_Query. The 2.x versions just cared about language selection.

marusic
(@marusic)

11 years, 9 months ago

3.0a1 and 3.0a2 don’t pass the hidden parameters. Can you post a version that does somewhere, or an example that works?

trolol
(@trolol)

11 years, 4 months ago

I am actually looking for similar functionality, which I can’t seem to figure out how to do. I’ve managed to restrict the live search results to a single post_type by editing DavesWordPressLiveSearchResults.php line 69:
$wpQueryParams['post_type'] = 'any';
If you change ‘any’ to your desired post_type, it’ll work.

My problem is with getting 2 post_types to work, for example ‘post’ AND ‘custom’, and I had no success with defining that properly (my knowledge in PHP is very limited). Would anyone be kind enough to provide a fix for this (even though it’s hard code and prone to get messed up with future updates)?

Thanks!!

faeronsayn
(@faeronsayn)

11 years, 3 months ago

Could you possible use an array to assign the values of the post types?

I haven’t tested this though.

larryhans
(@larryhans)

11 years, 2 months ago

To get only the products from woocommerce:
$wpQueryParams[‘post_type’] = ‘products’;

It worked pretty fine for us.

lmoore11608
(@lmoore11608)

11 years, 2 months ago

using $wpQueryParams[‘post_type’] = ‘products’;
didn’t give me any dropdown results. The loading circle popped up, but nothing came up for the live search. It only worked for me with $wpQueryParams[‘post_type’] = ‘any’;