Thanks for the note. Do you need to search or do you need a search form?
All custom field data is stored in the wp_postmeta table — the only fields that are a bit obscured are the multi- fields — they store data in JSON-encoded arrays. There are many ways to search on the wp_postmeta table — in theme files, I usually use the GetPostsQuery() object (included in the CCTM). See http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-summarize-posts/wiki/Examples_get_posts for examples.
Thanks for your reply!
I would like to modify the wp standard search, it should be able to find the words also in custom contents, from your link I don’t understand how to do it… thanks for your pacience!
That’s gonna be tough — search forms can require a lot of customized code, I’m afraid. If we all had Google’s budget, we could make it look easy 😉 I’ve done projects for clients where the only deliverables were search forms, if that gives you an idea of the potential complexity.
Even if I had finished/polished my “helper” code here, the answer would be long and it would be more of a tutorial, unfortunately. Hopefully, I’ll have such a tutorial soon (projects permitting), but right now, the only thing I can point you towards is the GetPostsQuery() object and its get_posts() method: http://code.google.com/p/wordpress-summarize-posts/wiki/get_posts
You’ll have to build an HTML form and handle submissions and result-formatting, but at least the form inputs are quite flexible so you should be able to drill down to find any posts you require.
Is that the correct link?
