Agfdhyk

I'm building a custom search page for my new site to include custom sections for both blog posts and product, but as a "bandaid" solution for the present, I want to just return the search results for products and not posts.

I'm using Wordpress v - 4.9.8 and using a Divi Child Theme (Divi Parent Theme v - 3.17.6)

I'm currently trying to hook into pre_get_posts with the following code in functions.php, but it's still only returning the "posts" results and not as products:

// LIMIT SEARCH TO POSTS OR PRODUCTS ONLY



add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter', 9);



function SearchFilter($query) {

if ( !is_admin() && $query->is_search ) {

$query->set('post_type', 'product'); 

}

return $query;

}

Original Code Doc

Any ideas on how to make this work? I am thinking maybe making my own search.php page might work instead? I feel like something simple in functions.php would work better though.

You have to follow below process to search by products

Step - 1

Search form for Custom Post Type: Products

---> Add Below code where you are representing your search form

    <div>   

    <h3>Search Products</h3>

    <form role="search" action="<?php echo site_url('/'); ?>" method="get" id="searchform">

    <input type="text" name="s" placeholder="Search Products"/>

    <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="products" /> <!-- // hidden 'products' value -->

    <input type="submit" alt="Search" value="Search" />

  </form>

 </div>

Step - 2

----> Add below code in your active themes function.php

function template_chooser($template)   

{    

  global $wp_query;   

  $post_type = get_query_var('post_type');   

  if( $wp_query->is_search && $post_type == 'products' )   

  {

    return locate_template('archive-search.php');  //  redirect to archive-search.php

  }   

  return $template;   

}

add_filter('template_include', 'template_chooser'); 

Step- 3

---> Create search result template for custom post type ( archive-search.php )

<?php

        /* Template Name: Custom Search */        

        get_header(); ?>             

        <div class="contentarea">

            <div id="content" class="content_right">  

                     <h3>Search Result for : <?php echo "$s"; ?> </h3>       

                     <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>    

                <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="posts">        

                     <article>        

                    <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>        

                    <p><?php the_exerpt(); ?></p>        

                    <p align="right"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read     More</a></p>    

                    <span class="post-meta"> Post By <?php the_author(); ?>    

                     | Date : <?php echo date('j F Y'); ?></span>    



                    </article><!-- #post -->    

                </div>

        <?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php endif; ?>









           </div><!-- content -->    

        </div><!-- contentarea -->   

        <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

        <?php get_footer(); ?>