With a conditional tag, in this case likely is_category
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
Putting it all together requires a good understanding of WP, your theme, and how these conditional tags work.
Hi, many thanks for the reply.
My understanding of the above is fairly basic, and I’m learning as fast as possible!
The theme is Chameleon by Elegant themes and I’ve logged the query with them too but have had no reply.
The line of code that needs changing as far as I can see is:
<input type="text" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Search this site...', 'Chameleon'); ?>" name="s" id="searchinput" />
but whether it’s as easy as using a conditional tag of some sort in the ‘value’ bit, I don’t know. I’ve tried various things without success..
K
Can you change this:
<input type="text" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Search this site...', 'Chameleon'); ?>" name="s" id="searchinput" />
to this:
<input type="text" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Search this site...', 'Chameleon'); ?>" name="s" id="searchinput" />
<input type="hidden" name="artist" value="true" />
This will add the query var “artist” to the search query.
Put this in your theme’s functions.php to alter the search query when you are searching for artists:
add_filter('query_vars', 'artist_query_var');
function artist_query_var($public_query_vars) {
$public_query_vars[] = 'artist';
return $public_query_vars;
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'alter_search_query' );
function alter_search_query( $query ) {
// not an admin page and is the main query
if (!is_admin() && $query->is_main_query()){
if(is_search()){
$artist = get_query_var('artist');
if($artist != '') {
$query->set('cat', 9);
}
}
}
}
That did it, brilliant – I can’t thank you enough!!
Kevin
You’re welcome. I’m glad you’ve got it resolved 🙂
