How to search ALL custom fields for a post type?

Anonymous

#38162

Hi there,

I have a customer’s site where they are using custom fields extensively (ie: post meta). There is no ‘one’ field to query, and they are constantly changing the meta fields.

How can I have Search and Filter Pro search not only title and content, but all custom fields for a post type?

It’s clear that I can apply a filter on one specific meta field, but I’m after the opposite. I want searches to query ALL custom fields (post meta) for a particular post type.

Cheers

Simon

Ross Moderator

#38231

Hey Simon

I’m not sure that thats possible with S&F alone, to use the search box for searching the content of custom fields you can combine S&F with Relevanssi:

https://www.designsandcode.com/documentation/search-filter-pro/3rd-party/relevanssi/

But I’m not sure even Relevanssi would be able to search “all custom fields belonging to a certain post type”.

Because S&F has a cache (and so does Relevanssi), S&F needs to know (when you are setting up your form) which fields to search in – so that it can correctly index all that data – so changing the custom fields “on the fly” is not supported and I doubt it would be for Relevanssi, but it might be worth checking in to.

Thanks

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