How Do I Create an Advanced Search Form in WordPress?

Creating an advanced search form in WordPress is easy. First, you need to create a new file in your WordPress install, called search.

php. This file will contain all of the code required to create your search form.

Once you have created the search.php file, you will need to add the following code to it:

‘search’, // Type of form ‘#title’ => __( ‘Advanced Search’, ‘WordPress’ ), // Title of the form ‘#description’ => ‘Allows you to search for posts, pages, and custom post types.’ ), // Description of the form ‘#input_type’ => ‘text’, // Type of input fields ‘#input_title’ => ‘Post Title’, // Title of the input field for post titles ‘#input_excerpt’ => ‘Post Content’, // Excerpt of the input field for post content ‘#input_status’ => ‘publish’, // Status of the input field ‘#input_date’ => ‘date_format_i18n’, // Date format in international characters ‘#input_submit’ => ‘submit’, // Button to submit the form ); } /** * Creates and displays the search form. */ function search_form_show() { $form = $this->search_form(); // Assign the form to the template $form->set_template( ‘searchform’, __FILE__ ); // Display the form } /** * Handles the submission of the search form.

*/ function search_form_submit() { // If the form has been submitted, process the results if ( $this->search_form_valid ) { // Get the results from the form $results = $this->search_form_items(); // Display the results } else { // The form wasn’t valid, display an error message $this->load_template( ‘searchform_error’, __FILE__ ); } } /** * Retrieves the values of the form fields. */ function search_form_items() { // Retrieve the values of the form fields $items = $this->search_form_items_text(); // Get the values of the post title and content fields $title = $items[‘input_title’]; $content = $items[‘input_excerpt’]; } /** * Retrieves the values of the form fields. */ function search_form_items_text() { // Retrieve the values of the form fields $items = $this->search_form_items_text(); // Get the values of the post title and content fields $title = $items[‘input_title’]; $content = $items[‘input_excerpt’]; } /** * Processes the results of the search form. */ function search_form_process() { // If the results have been processed, display them if ( $this->search_form_valid ) { // Display the results } else { // The results weren’t valid, display an error message $this->load_template( ‘searchform_error’, __FILE__ ); } } }.

After you have added the code to the search.php file, you will need to register the search form with WordPress.

To do this, you will need to add the following line to your theme’s functions.php file:.

register_search_form( ‘your_search_form_name’ );

Once you have registered the search form, you will be able to create custom search forms using the code that you have already added to search.php.