How to: create a search widget?

You can make a simple search widget by installing an HTML widget plugin then put a search form in there that supplies the search parameters in the URL to the page with the list like this:

participant-list/?search_field=first_name&value=Jonathan&operator=LIKE&sortBy=&ascdesc=&submit=Search

That will show the results of a search for “Jonathan” on the “first_name” field.

Thanks for helping out with the translation!

For future reference, and other people that might be interested in this:

You can simply use the standard text widget which is available in WordPress by default. It accepts HTML code.

Using this code should work. It creates a search form inside a widget, so your visitors can search your participants database from any page/post on your website (provided the widget is visible):

<form action="https://mywebsite.com/page/pdb-list-page/" method="post">
	<input type="hidden" name="search_field" value="last_name">
	<input type="hidden" name="sortstring" value="birth_date">
	<input type="hidden" name="orderstring" value="desc">
	<input type="hidden" name="operator" value="LIKE">
	<input type="text" name="value" value="">
	<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search">
	<!--<input type="image" name="submit" alt="submit" src="https://mywebsite.com/button.jpg">-->
</form>

I included an option to have the submit button as an image, but it doesn’t seem to work. I’ll update this as soon as I figure out what’s going on.