Wordpress search template for custom post type

1
votes

I made a custom post type plugin to display team member in wordpress name team to display custom post type I made archive-team.php and single-team.php all that works great and independent of theme used.

Now my problem is that I want to include custom post type in search also but I think there is no such thing searh-team.php and to display search template for custom post type i have to modify search.php which varies from theme to theme.

So can anyone point me in right direction to make search template independent of theme.

Regards

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wordpresspluginscustom-post-type

3 Answers

1
votes

Follow these 3 steps to achieve custom post search.

Lets say your custom post type name is employee_member.

  1. Add Below code into function.php

    function template_chooser($template)   
{    
  global $wp_query;   
  $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');   
  if( $wp_query->is_search && $post_type == 'employee_member' )   
  {
    return locate_template('employee-search.php');  //  redirect to archive-search.php
  }   
  return $template;   
}
add_filter('template_include', 'template_chooser');

  2. Create file employee-search.php

/* Template Name: Custom Search */
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div class="contentarea">
    <div id="content" class="content_right">
        <h3>Search Result for : <?php echo "$s"; ?> </h3>
        <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
        <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="posts">
            <article>
                <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>" title="<?php the_title();?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>
                <p><?php the_exerpt(); ?></p>
                <p align="right"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read     More</a></p>
                <span class="post-meta"> Post By <?php the_author(); ?>
                    | Date : <?php echo date('j F Y'); ?>
                </span>

            </article><!-- #post -->
        </div>

    </div><!-- content -->
</div><!-- contentarea -->
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
  1. Finally create a search form for your custom post type
<div>   
   <h3>Search Employee Member</h3>
   <form role="search" action="<?php echo site_url('/'); ?>" method="get" id="searchform">
       <input type="text" name="s" placeholder="Search Products"/>
       <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="employee_member" /> 
       <input type="submit" alt="Search" value="Search" />
   </form>
</div>
0
votes

Use pre_get_posts() to alter the query

To do this, a good practice is to use pre_get_posts() to alter the search query. This code can be dropped in the functions.php of the theme or directly into a plugin.

<?php
// Call our function my_search()
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_search' );

function my_search($query) {

    // Check if we are on the front end main search query
    if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search() ) {

        // Change the post_type parameter on the query
        $query->set('post_type', 'team');
    }

    // Return the modified query
    return $query;
}
?>

The search will now be queried only your custom post type "team". If you would like the research also integrates post and pages, you can modify the following line:

<?php
$query->('post_type', array('team', 'post', 'page'));
?>

If you use the add_filter() in a PHP Class, be careful to declare your filter like this:

<?php
add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', array( $this, 'my_search' ) );
?>
0
votes

You can add this in your functions.php :

function filter_search($query) {
    if ($query->is_search) {
    $query->set('post_type', array('post', 'team')); // Add all post types you want results for.
    };
    return $query;
};
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'filter_search');