Title: Adding meta to search
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Adding meta to search

 *  [apmeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmeyer/)
 * (@apmeyer)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-meta-to-search/)
 * Hi there. Quick question. I’m using ACF for various meta fields. I’m also using
   this approach to add meta to search:
 * [http://adambalee.com/search-wordpress-by-custom-fields-without-a-plugin/](http://adambalee.com/search-wordpress-by-custom-fields-without-a-plugin/)
 * Using ALM doesn’t seem to honor the adjustments to the search query. Should it?
 * The ALM shortcode for search works just fine otherwise, it’s just not including
   meta fields though normal search (not using ALM) is including meta.
 * Thanks much!

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 *  Plugin Author [Darren Cooney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcooney/)
 * (@dcooney)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-meta-to-search/#post-7209739)
 * Hi apmeyer,
    That’s likely because ALM doesn’t actually use is_search() – that
   is used on a search results page.
 * ALM simply uses the ‘s’ query parameter. In order to do this you would need to
   run a search query before ALM and pass the post IDs using `post__in`.
 * Does that make sense?
 *  Thread Starter [apmeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmeyer/)
 * (@apmeyer)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-meta-to-search/#post-7209757)
 * I’ll give that a shot. Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [apmeyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apmeyer/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-meta-to-search/#post-7209757)
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