Search Results and Recurring Events

[renaissancecreative]

Hi,

When someone searches the website for any of the events such as:
Shakespeare
It returns every occurence of a recurring event, this results in lots of repeated information.

Can you suggest how I can modify the results so that it only shows the main event as it were.
I am actually changing the results so it sepearates the results into post types as it stands but I can’t work out what i’m doing wrong with the results.

Can you point me the right direction.

[George]

Hey @Renaissancecreative,

Thanks for reaching out!

Pulling off this adjustment of search results is actually a pretty complicated thing to do. 🙁 We are not able to help with customizations, but still like to try and at least help point folks in the right direction to get started on their own.

For modifying search results in this way, the only thing I could think of would be to use the WordPress pre_get_posts() in search results. Recurring events are “child posts” of a single parent post (the parent is the first post in the series)—so if you can hook into the search query and try to make it ignore “child posts,” you might be in luck.

Here are some resources for learning more about modifying queries and such:

• https://codex.wordpress.org/Custom_Queries
• https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts
• http://www.remicorson.com/modifying-the-current-query-with-pre_get_posts/
• http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/140664/custom-search-query
• https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/build-your-own-custom-wordpress-search/

Best of luck with your tinkering!
George

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