Hi Ollie,
Thank you for those kind words 🙂
It is fairly easy to extend it with a search field if you have some experience developing in WordPress.
It has to be done in a few steps:
1. Add a custom search input field to the filter module using one of the actions provided. For example beautiful_actions_beginning_form. You should call it something other than s tho to avoid WPs own search taking over. I usually give it name="search"
2. Either hook into the action beautiful_actions_before_redirection and add the $_POST['search'] as a $_GET['search'] and it will automatically be appended to the url OR use the filter beautiful_filters_new_url and append it yourself at the end using the add_query_arg( 'search', $_POST['search'], $new_url ); function. Either way you should end up on a filtered url like /posttype/taxonomy/term/?search=searchterm
3. Finally hook into the pre_get_posts action and modify the WP_Query parameters if the $_GET[‘search’] parameter is set. like $query->set( 's', esc_html( $_GET['search'] ) );
Like I said, these instructions should be more than enough to get a developer started on and making a search field work. However there’s currently no plans to include this per default in BTF.. At least not until I’ve sorted out some other stuff first 🙂
Best of luck!
Hi Jonathan,
Thank you for your assistance with this.
I don’t suppose you would be able to provide me with the full sets of code to achieve this?
Many thanks,
Ollie@HB
Hi,
Sorry that’s way beyond what support I can offer here on an open source plugin 🙂
You can certainly find a WordPress developer or agency to help you out tho!
Myself are employed by a Swedish agency which does not do small tasks but rather build and/or maintain larger sites so that’s not an option I’m afraid.
