Site search shows metadata for event post date – not Event Date

[Michael Henderson]

Hey Guys,
Any way to force WP to ignore the post date metadata tag of an event, and instead display the event date when running a simple site search?

Thanks!

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Michael and welcome back!

Thank you for reaching out to us.

I would love to help you with this topic.

Any way to force WP to ignore the post date metadata tag of an event, and instead display the event date when running a simple site search?

Yes, you can totally customize WP search result pages to your liking (I am assuming you are talking about the built-in WordPress search bar and not the Tribe Events search bar).

There are 2 ways to do this:

1. Through your theme (or child theme) – this varies greatly from one theme to the next. The search results will usually be defined by: archive.php, search.php or archive-search.php
2. Through a search customization plugin such as one of the following: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=search

If you are up for it, I would recommend approach 1 (ideally in a child theme to make it theme update resistant).
Basically, you will need to add a conditional as to what to display when the search is returning events.

Here’s a great example of that type of code: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/89886/how-to-create-a-custom-search-for-custom-post-type

Let me know if that helps.

Have a great day!

Geoff B.

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