[wp-hackers] Restrict search results?

[Viper007Bond]

Page searching has been in WordPress for quite a while. 2.5, possibly
earlier.

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Paul Menard <paul at codehooligans.com> wrote:

> This actually brings up something I read some time ago (early 2008) that
> WordPress would be including Pages in searches. My apologies but I don't
> know if these ever made it into a official release.
>
> For Categories and Tags there are some very nice taxonomy related settings:
>
> category__in, category__not_in, category__in, category__not_in,
> category__and, tag__in, tag__not_in, tag__and
>
> These can be easily used in the case of a search or whatever. I actually
> use them heavily for a plugin I wrote earlier Simply Exclude But for Pages
> one has to jump through some ugly action code to manipulate the SQL query
> itself. Ugly ugly stuff.
>
> So for Pages it would be nice to have a similar set of settings like
> page__in, page__not_in
>
> P-
>
>
>
> On Jul 20, 2008, at 7:26 PM, Viper007Bond wrote:
>
>  Good thinking! Sadly query_posts() doesn't accept meta parameters, but
>> that's still easier than using parent or whatever in the SQL filters
>> (post_where, etc.).
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Glenn Ansley <glenn at glennansley.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  You might consider giving them all the same custom_value and create a
>>> quick
>>> plugin that adds that meta value to search parameters... that would
>>> preserve
>>> the post_type...just a though.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  I need them to be actual pages so I can display them without huge
>>>>
>>> hacking.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> And actually all of these pages will have a common parent.
>>>>
>>>> This is the format I'm gonna move to pages:
>>>> http://www.finalgear.com/shows/topgear/11/4/   That's currently
>>>> mod_rewrite
>>>> + a custom script.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:32 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Just a thought, Would it be possible to assign these pages a custom
>>>>> taxonomy(like a category or tags), and have your search page limit it
>>>>>
>>>> to
>>>
>>>> items within that taxonomy?
>>>>>
>>>>> Another method i can think of, Which most likely will not work for you,
>>>>>
>>>> Is
>>>>
>>>>> to assign the pages to have a parent page which only acts as a stub,
>>>>> Allthough it takes a bit of effort to remove the stub from the
>>>>>
>>>> permalink
>>>
>>>> for
>>>>
>>>>> the page..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:25:23 +1000, Viper007Bond <
>>>>>
>>>> viper at viper007bond.com
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That opens a whole other can of worms though for what I'm doing when
>>>>>
>>>> it
>>>
>>>> comes to displaying and managing the content. I might as well stick to
>>>>>>
>>>>> my
>>>>
>>>>> current custom scripts.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Jason Webster <jason at intraffic.net>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have achieved this by assigning the special pages their own
>>>>>>
>>>>> post_type
>>>
>>>> field in the database, and applying some filters to the posts_*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> hooks.
>>>
>>>> I
>>>>
>>>>> can
>>>>>>> elaborate more, if you'd like, however I'm about to pass out from
>>>>>>> exhaustion.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Jason
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Viper007Bond wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm in the process of converting one of my half WordPress-powered
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> sites
>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> be fully WordPress. It currently uses a custom table and custom
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> scripts
>>>>
>>>>> to
>>>>>>>> output Page-like content. I will be transitioning this data to be
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> actual
>>>>
>>>>> Pages and meta content.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> However, I want to be able to search these Pages and only these
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pages
>>>
>>>> (rather than posts and other Pages). Is this possible? Or do I need
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to
>>>
>>>> manually query?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> More importantly though, how can I exclude these Pages for when I
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> want
>>>
>>>> to
>>>>>>>> search the posts (site news)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Is it just a matter of playing with WP_Query or am I SOL?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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