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How to search in meta fields in PHP?
All you need is to add the following code in function.php, and whenever you use the ‘s’ argument in a standard WP_Query () function and want it to search in one or several meta fields as well, you simply add a ‘s_meta_keys’ argument that is an array of the meta (s) key (s) you want to search in:
How to use meta query with custom field?
When you call ‘post__in’ you need to set an array of ids and $unique is an array of posts. @satbir-kira answer works great but it will only search through the meta and post title. If you want it to search through meta, title and content, here is the modified version. Here’s another way, just change the request with the ‘posts_where_request’ filter.
What’s the meta field for a WordPress post?
I’m developing a wordpress plugin. I’m using two different custom post types, players and teams. Players has relevant meta fields: First name, last name, and team. Teams has relevant meta fields of team name.
Where to find keywords in a meta query?
Keywords can be found in one or several of the fileds, in any order, it will return any post that has all the keywords in any of the designated fields. You can obiously force the search in a list of meta keys you include in the fonction and get rid of the extra agruments if you want ALL search queries to include these meta keys 🙂
How to force search in list of meta keys?
You can obiously force the search in a list of meta keys you include in the fonction and get rid of the extra agruments if you want ALL search queries to include these meta keys 🙂 Hope that will help anyone who face the same issue I did! All of the above solutions only return results if a match exists in the speel meta key.
How to fix my meta _ query code below?
It has several custom fields, named: TITLE, AUTHOR, GENRE, RATING. How do I fix my meta_query code below so that only books that have the search word in the custom fields: title, author, genre WITH EXACTLY the rating specified in my search form, gets displayed in the results?
How to use search and filter in WordPress?
Use Search & Filter to find posts / custom posts / products by any number of parameters, allowing your users to easily find what they are looking for on your site, whether it be a blog post, a product in an online shop and more. Create advanced filters for Taxonomies, Custom Fields, Post Meta and more!
How to get the post META array in WordPress?
If the value of the $key parameter is falsy get_post_meta will return the entire post meta array, even if $single is set to true. for example: get_post_meta( $post_id, FALSE, TRUE); //Returns all the post meta fields as an array.
How are the fields displayed in WordPress search?
Fields can be displayed as dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons or multi selects. Search Custom Fields, Post Meta, Authors, Post Types, Post Dates, Taxonomies, Tags, Categories