Limit wordpress admin search to post title

[baldidiot]

Anyone know a decent way of doing this? It's driving me nuts when you search for something and you get three pages of posts that happen to mention the term before the post with that title.

Found a couple of functions online but none seem to work very well with the current WP version and throw out errors.

[Strider1973]

Where do you search? On your website like a user, or in the backend as an admin?

As an admin, you can make the normal search, increase the number of results to 100 per page (instead of the standard 20) and then just search again on the website for the desired text.

Otherwise you might want to try a plugin like Relevanssi. The pricing for the premium version is just a bit a joke - like it is for many premium plugins nowadays.

[Mattbar]

Anyone know a decent way of doing this? It's driving me nuts when you search for something and you get three pages of posts that happen to mention the term before the post with that title.

Found a couple of functions online but none seem to work very well with the current WP version and throw out errors.

I don't know the answer but also very keen to find out as I find it infuriating.

[baldidiot]

Where do you search? On your website like a user, or in the backend as an admin?

On the back end when looking for an article to edit. Eg: if you have an article about the grand national and you search for that, I want the article with the terms 'Grand National' to appear rather than 300 vaguely related posts.

As an admin, you can make the normal search, increase the number of results to 100 per page (instead of the standard 20) and then just search again on the website for the desired text.

Yeah I guess. Seems daft though. Also some of our sites have thousands of posts so if the text is fairly common it might not even be on the first page.

Otherwise you might want to try a plugin like Relevanssi. The pricing for the premium version is just a bit a joke - like it is for many premium plugins nowadays.

I did actually see that one. Problem is it's way more than needed and has a pretty big database overhead which again seems daft when trying to simplify the site.


Still seems weird to me that this isn't the default action in WP anyway (or an option at least).

[ddm]

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/...es/11826#11826

[Michael Martinez]

Haven't tested it yet but now that I know it exists, I will.

WP Extended Search – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin.

With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt.


Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms.
For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML.

[baldidiot]

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/...es/11826#11826

That's the puppy, thanks!

[baldidiot]

Haven't tested it yet but now that I know it exists, I will.

WP Extended Search – WordPress plugin | WordPress.org

I did actually try this one earlier today but it seemed to only work on the front end rather than the back end.

[universal4]

Although I do not know a simple plugin that can help with the search, I imagine one could write a custom query for the database to find pages or posts by slug or id.

If you are wanting to edit a specific page and you know the url, you can log in to the backend, then hit the page in the browser, then you can just choose edit in the admin bar, and it should load the specific page or post in your backend editor.

Rick
Universal4

[ddm]

That's the puppy, thanks!

pleasure dude.

you will need to add this code at start of function or it will trigger for all site searches [not just loggedin/admin] fwiw:

if( !is_admin() )
        return; 

[baldidiot]

If you are wanting to edit a specific page and you know the url, you can log in to the backend, then hit the page in the browser, then you can just choose edit in the admin bar, and it should load the specific page or post in your backend editor.

Yeah that's what I've been doing up to now but seems daft that there's a search feature in the back end that's just useless.

you will need to add this code at start of function or it will trigger for all site searches [not just loggedin/admin] fwiw:

Good to know, thanks!