Custom Search Query on media(attachments)

  • Resolved Fotis K

    (@f_kalafatishotmailcom)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve been trying to implement a custom search that won’t only search posts but also media (by they’re titles and custom fields).
    Before going for the whole thing, I performed a little test: I wanted the search to display only posts of type ‘attachment'(media) and I thought I could achieve this by putting the following piece of code in my functions.php:

    function SearchFilter($query) {
  if ($query->is_search) {
    $query->set('post_type', 'attachment');
    $query->set('post_status', 'inherit');
    $query->set('post_parent', NULL);
  }
  return $query;
}

add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

    Unfortunately, no luck. When searching it doesn’t display the (unattached) media files. Any idea what might be wrong?

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  • Thread Starter Fotis K

    (@f_kalafatishotmailcom)

    I guess asking the post_parent to be NULL was the problem. My final working code(searching posts and media) is the following and should be placed in functions.php:

    function SearchFilter($query) {
  if ($query->is_search) {
    $query->set('post_type', array('attachment','post','page'));
    $query->set('post_status', array('publish','inherit'));
  }
  return $query;
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');
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