WordPress 5 Cookbook

Customizing WordPress search

Site search is an important feature for any kind of website to help users find the necessary resources quickly without going through the entire site's content. WordPress provides a built-in search feature for searching posts, pages, and custom post-type content. In advanced applications, we may need to use the search differently from the default behavior. In these applications, we may need to implement requirements such as the following:

• Restrict searching for certain user types
• Build different search forms to search for different content
• Limit the search to selected post types

So, we need to alter the default search with custom conditions to generate custom search results. Built-in WordPress hooks can be used ...