Edit search results query

  • Resolved Mallander

    (@mallander)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Hi There,

    I’m wondering if it’s possible to edit the way posts are ordered etc.?

    I’m trying to have some settings the user can edit that allows for them to change:

    Search order & order By
    Posts Per Page
    Offset (For pagination)

    Is there a way that I can do this? Perhaps editing the query?

    Regards,

    Mallander

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  • Thread Starter Mallander

    (@mallander)

    Hi There,

    After some deliberation about how to go about doing this, I discovered that the way to do this was using query_posts().

    This allows you to do things such as:

    // ONLY IF USING GET_PAGES() ELSEWHERE - Get the post ID's from the search to use in get_pages/get_posts
if (have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
    array_push($searchPosts, $post->ID);
endwhile; else: endif;

// Create the custom query params
$pages = query_posts($query_string . '&posts_per_page=' . $postsPerPage . '&orderby=' . $sortColumn . '&order=' . $sortOrder . '&meta_key=' . $metaKey . '&offset=' . $offset);

//Style to your hearts content
foreach($pages as $page) {}

    Allowing you to customize the results and use pagination with it (well, custom pagination)

    NOTE: I’m using get_pages for a lot of my results and pagination hence why $pages = XYZ and not just directly in the query. This method could be used for the default query without the need for get_pages() but might require a bit of tweaking.

    Hope someone else finds this useful

    Mallander

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