Event Search

[Lady Berry]

Hi,

Sorry for all my questions – Is there a way of including the events in the wordpress search results. For exampl I would like to search for April and see all April events – I have tried tagging the event with April but this has not worked.

Thanks in advance for your help
Ben

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Ben and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.
We will gladly answer your question.

Is there a way of including the events in the wordpress search results? For exampl I would like to search for April and see all April events – I have tried tagging the event with April but this has not worked.

That’s a great question. The short answer is yes, but it is not really a built-in feature. Let me explain.

The basic WordPress search functionalities are fairly limited.
As a result, may search plugins have popped up to make the search engine more customizable (including on custom post types such as events).

Other people have decided to fix this in the WordPress theme they are using. As such, most themes have a different way to go about search (what is searched and what is returned). You could probably get a sense of that by going through your theme’s search.php, archive.php and functions.php (if there’s any customization).

So in short, there are 2 things you could do:

1. Find an enhanced search plugin that you like and lets you do what you are looking for
2. Try to add rules to your theme’s search behaviour

• If you choose option 2, here are a few posts to get you started:
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-search-results-to-custom-post-type
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-include-custom-post-types-in-search-results-and-archives
• http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/template/create-multiple-search-templates-for-custom-post-types/

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

 

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