Good – follow the tutorials

Good plugin that really did the job of searching / filtering against my custom posts, populated with custom fields and custom taxonomies. It’s a tad bit tricky to use in a few places, so I suggest carefully watching his first 3 video tutorials.

Here is a not very obvious thing, read carefully. To search against a custom text field in a custom post type (say some arbitrary keywords), this plugin will do it.

Create a new Filter Section. The main name and the 1st “item” name can be the same (click Prepend Filter Item). Click “Toggle” Choose your type (Textinput in my case). Probably leave the query alone with “Like” – which allows partial word and sentence match.

Choose and MDTP Category (which you set up previously – follow his vids) and save this.

*OPEN IT BACK UP*

Toggle it open again and look at the bottom. There’s a new input field called “Reflect value from meta key”. You will have to get this from your database. Open up your DB, select your wp_postmeta table. Look down your meta_key column until you find the one you would like to search again, put that string into the “Reflect value from meta key”.

I also switched back over to a standard theme to make sure I was seeing results.