Wiki-style direct page landing from search function?

Hi warnerta,

I looked around and found this that seems to work:

function redir_title_match($a) {
  if (is_search()) {
    global $wp_query;
    $s_str = $wp_query->query_vars['s'];
    foreach ($wp_query->posts as $p) {
      if (strtolower($p->post_title) == strtolower($s_str)) {
        wp_safe_redirect(get_permalink($p->ID));
        exit();
      }
    }
  }
}
add_filter('template_redirect','redir_title_match');

from here (I made it non-case sensitive):

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/49208/want-to-redirect-if-search-query-match-exact-title-of-any-post

If you have a child theme then you can add it to the child theme’s functions.php. If you do not have a child them (or it is way easier to do so) you can use a plugin called “Code Snippets” and add it there (which is what I did to test).

I am going to mark this as resolved, but feel free to followup if I didn’t understand the question.

Hope this helps,

David

Thank you, that was very helpful of you. In a nutshell the answer to my question is: yes, Wiki-style search redirects to exact term-to-page matches can be done in WordPress, and there are multiple ways of doing it. But as of now, no ready-made plugin. So yes, mark this resolved. I just posted here because I figured you or your users might know more than I could find by searching the web.

If and when I get something clean and working I’ll report back. I’m looking at another method that uses WP’s get_page_by_title() function. It’s explained here: https://trepmal.com/2011/04/21/redirect-when-search-query-is-an-exact-title-match/

Best regards.

Hi again. I have tested out the alternative method I referred to and it works well. I think it’s better practice to use WordPress’ built-in get_page_by_title function than to code your own search loop. Also make for more compact code.

This is revised and improved from the version I linked to, which starts off with the right idea but makes some mistakes. For example it’s very important to test for ‘publish’ status before redirecting, or else you could allow redirects to private or trash content.

Note that the test for an exact match is not case sensitive.

Also note that this function is hard-coded to redirect only when search terms exactly match the titles of posts of a custom post type called ‘wiki’. If you want to redirect to regular posts, pages or posts of another custom post type called for example ‘whatever’, replace ‘wiki’ as the third parameter of get_page_by_title() with ‘post’ or ‘page’ or ‘whatever’. To redirect to exact matches of multiple types of posts and/or pages, duplicate the core section of the code – everything inside the curly brackets of if (is_search()).

Cheers and hope this is also useful to somebody besides me.

add_action ( 'template_redirect', 'exact_match_redirect');

function exact_match_redirect()
{
global $wp_query;
if (is_search())
	{
	$matched_wiki_post = get_page_by_title ( get_search_query(), 'OBJECT', 'wiki' );
	if ( !empty ($matched_wiki_post) )
		{
		if ( $matched_wiki_post->post_status == 'publish' )
			{
			wp_redirect( get_permalink ( $matched_wiki_post->ID ) );
                        exit();
			}
		}
	}
}

Awesome. Thank you for sharing.