Add custom taxonomy to event search

[Marek Zelezny]

Hello,

I have a custom taxonomy created for events and the event_search doesn’t search that taxonomy when I enter the taxonomy name in the search event field. I think it probably searches just titles or/with content. Is it possible to modify the event_search function to also include searches for that taxonomy? If so, can you navigate me how to do it because I don’t know how to get around that shortcode’s function.

Thank you,
Mark

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Marek,

Unfortunately custom taxonomies aren’t supported – though it’s a good idea, so I’ll implement this for 1.11 (I’m afraid it’s too late for 1.10). This will give me a chance to refactor that monster of a file 😉

[Stephen Harris]

I should add – the search part of the event search does indeed search titles/content (this is standard WordPress behaviour). You could use pre_get_posts to detect when an event search is being done, then use get_terms() to search for matching terms, and then modify the tax_query part of the query. However, I believe that would filter the events, i.e. it would only show events that were in a term LIKE the %search term%. That is WordPress would return “events that have title/content like X and are in term like X”. (If that makes sense…)

Here’s how to catch an event search query

 add_filter( 'pre_get_posts', 'my_change_event_search' );
 function my_change_event_search( $query ){

      if( $query->get( 'context' ) == 'eo-events-search-shortcode' ){
          //$query is event search shortcode
      }

  }

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