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Created December 11, 2013 13:41
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Search trough all WordPress pages and ALL the custom meta values.
<?php
global $wpdb;
$keyword = get_search_query();
$keyword = '%' . like_escape( $keyword ) . '%';
// Search in all custom fields
$post_ids_meta = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "
SELECT DISTINCT post_id FROM {$wpdb->postmeta}
WHERE meta_value LIKE '%s'
", $keyword ) );
// Search in post_title and post_content
$post_ids_post = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare( "
SELECT DISTINCT ID FROM {$wpdb->posts}
WHERE post_title LIKE '%s'
OR post_content LIKE '%s'
", $keyword, $keyword ) );
$post_ids = array_merge( $post_ids_meta, $post_ids_post );
// Query arguments
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'post__in' => $post_ids,
'posts_per_page' => 20
);
$search_query = new WP_Query( $args );
?>
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