How to consider custom taxonomy names too on a wordpress search?

Question

I'm trying to change wordpress default search behavior in order to consider taxonomies names too. If I inform on the search input the value 'Cybercops', I want the wordpress search to look for posts that have the cybercops word.

But the blog have a custom taxonomy named Heros, and one of the Heros categories could have the name 'Cybercops' too. So, If a post or custom post belongs to these 'Cybercops' Heros category, this posts has to appear on the result of the search.

So far, I have this, because I want to bring future post too:

function my_theme_my_custom_search( $query ) {

    if( $query->is_main_query() && $query->is_search() && !is_admin()) {
        $query->set( 'post_status', array('publish, future') );
    }
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_theme_my_custom_search' );

I tried to use one more $query->set using tax_query but it doesn't work. Can someone help me?

amarinediary amarinediary · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-15T15:46:51

You can use any of the arguments from the WP_Query.

Source @ https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/

Parameter	Description
`tax_query`	(array) Use taxonomy parameters (available since version 3.1)

<?php
$tax = array(
  array(
    'taxonomy' => '_your_custom_taxonomy_',
    'field' => 'slug',
    'terms' => '_your_custom_term_slug_',
  )
);
$query->set( 'tax_query', $tax );
?>

How to consider custom taxonomy names too on a wordpress search?

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