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WordPress 5 Cookbook

You're reading from   WordPress 5 Cookbook Actionable solutions to common problems when building websites with WordPress

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838986506
Length 660 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
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Preface 1. Setting Up WordPress and Customizing Settings 2. Customizing Theme Design and Layout FREE CHAPTER 3. Using Plugins and Widgets 4. Publishing Site Content with the Gutenberg Editor 5. Managing Users and Permissions 6. Setting up a Blogging and Editorial Workflow 7. WordPress as an Application Framework 8. Improving Usability and Interactivity 9. Building E-Commerce Sites with WooComerce 10. Troubleshooting WordPress 11. Handling Performance and Maintenance 12. Improving Site Security 13. Promoting and Monetizing the Site 14. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix

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 to customize the search through a custom plugin.

In this recipe, we are going to customize the behavior of WordPress search for various...

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