We have many question regarding search functionality of WordPress
- I added a text field to the posts filter form and I use s= parameter to make the search work. But how to search only in the title of the post (not in the content)?
- how to limit search to post titles?
- How to search only by Post Title?
Answer is very simple using “posts_search” filter.
Usually when we use search option it searches in post title and post content both . but ion some conditions we need to search only in post content or only in post title..
For this we need to modify “posts_search” filter. This filter called every time when any loop is called . or any other query for getting post data’s and posts.
function custum_search_by_title_only( $search, &$wp_query ) { global $wpdb; if ( empty( $search ) ) return $search; // skip processing - no search term in query $q = $wp_query->query_vars; $n = ! empty( $q['exact'] ) ? '' : '%'; $search = $searchand = ''; foreach ( (array) $q['search_terms'] as $term ) { $term = esc_sql( like_escape( $term ) ); $search .= "{$searchand}($wpdb->posts.post_title LIKE '{$n}{$term}{$n}')"; $searchand = ' AND '; } if ( ! empty( $search ) ) { $search = " AND ({$search}) "; if ( ! is_user_logged_in() ) $search .= " AND ($wpdb->posts.post_password = '') "; } return $search; } add_filter( 'posts_search', 'custum_search_by_title_only', 500, 2 );