Adding event Search to main WordPress Search

[Robert]

I was wondering if I could get some assitance with the search on my site. I have a search that utilizes the “wp_dropdown_categories( ‘show_option_all=All Categories’ );” function to allow the user to select a category to find search results in. Since Events is a custom post type, is there anyway to incorporate events within my search selection dropdown? Is the way I am doing this efficient for what I want to accomplish or is there a different way?

[Jonah]

Hi Robert,

You’ll need to modify your search to include the events category taxonomy ‘tribe_events_cat’. You can modify wp_dropdown_categories() to use this taxonomy. See the doco on http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_dropdown_categories for more info. Unfortunately we won’t be able to help with you with this. You’ll need to figure it out on your own or hire someone to help you.

Good luck!

– Jonah

[Robert]

Thanks Jonah! I appreciate the direction. I am going to give this a crack.

[Robert]

One more quick question. If i didn’t want all of the Categories under Events and instead wanted just Events which acts as the parent for all categories, what would I do?

i.e. ‘tribe_events_cat’ <==== gives me all categories
instead is there a 'tribe_events' that will give me just "Events" as an option?

[Jonah]

Hi Robert,

I think you can use the ‘hierarchical’ argument to only go to a certain depth with your categories. Otherwise you could also do a query to get ID’s of child categories and then pass those in the ‘exclude’ argument. Does that help?

– Jonah

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