Seach custom post type posts only by meta fields?

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Seach custom post type posts only by meta fields?

Mladen Jankovic

2022年4月10日 19:05

is it possibile to search custom post type product by _sku or other custom meta field with input text field? I don't want to use plugin, just need custom WP function.

I have found this solution for search only by title:

function __search_by_title_only( $search, $wp_query )
{
    global $wpdb;
    if ( empty( $search ) )
        return $search; // skip processing - no search term in query
    $q = $wp_query-query_vars;
    $n = ! empty( $q['exact'] ) ? '' : '%';
    $search =
    $searchand = '';
    foreach ( (array) $q['search_terms'] as $term ) {
        $term = esc_sql( like_escape( $term ) );
        $search .= "{$searchand}($wpdb-posts.post_title LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}')";
        $searchand = ' AND ';
     }
     if ( ! empty( $search ) ) {
         $search = " AND ({$search}) ";
         if ( ! is_user_logged_in() )
             $search .= " AND ($wpdb-posts.post_password = '') ";
          }
      return $search;
  }
add_filter( 'posts_search', '__search_by_title_only', 500, 2 );

... but I need function like this for meta fields ( _sku and _author ).

Thanks !

Topic meta-value php custom-field Wordpress search

Category Web

Anton Flärd · Accepted Answer · 2018年2月1日 14:29

This might work, not tested though. First add this to join the postmeta table:

add_filter( 'posts_join', 'search_filters_join', 501, 2 );

function search_filters_join( $join, $query ) {
    global $wpdb;

    if ( empty( $query->query_vars[ 'post_type' ] ) || $query->query_vars[ 'post_type' ] !== 'product' ) {
        return $join; // skip processing
    }

    if ( ($this->is_ajax_search() || $this->is_search_page()) && !is_admin() ) {

            $join .= " INNER JOIN $wpdb->postmeta AS customsearch ON ( $wpdb->posts.ID = customsearch.post_id )";
    }


    return $join;
}

Then modify your $search-variable in the foreach-loop as to include the following (this example shows _sku, just add on _author to another OR section if you want to search for that as well):

$search .= "{$searchand} (($wpdb->posts.post_title LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}') OR (customsearch.meta_key='_sku' AND customsearch.meta_value LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}'))";

Seach custom post type posts only by meta fields?

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