I've tried a couple of methods but I cannot seem to filter custom post_types
from my search results and was hoping someone could help.
I have installed "Job Manager" and created 4 jobs which have a custom post_type = 'jobman_job'
I tried to create a manual search form and set a hidden value of post_type = jobman_job
but it still returned all posts.
<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="jobman_job" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</form>
I then tried creating a custom search page and redirecting the search to this page as follows (i.e added page_id
hidden field):
<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="page_id" value="123" />
<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="jobman_job" />
<input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="Search" />
</form>
And then in the custom search page, I added the following code (as per wordpress guide - http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page) and I added the post_type
of jobman_job
to the query array:
global $query_string;
$query_args = explode("&", $query_string);
$search_query = array('post_type' => 'jobman_job');
foreach($query_args as $key => $string) {
$query_split = explode("=", $string);
$search_query[$query_split[0]] = urldecode($query_split[1]);
} // foreach
$search = new WP_Query($search_query);
And it still displays all posts...
What am I doing wrong? I have checked the post_type
column in the wp_posts
table and I have 4 unique entries...so they are there...
Any Insight?