Reply To: Making ACF data available to wp_search?

• traviskelleher

• August 26, 2014 at 12:39 pm

Thanks Dalton, I had a look at this plug-in, but I’m not sure if it will work with sub_fields from repeaters. In my case the content I need searched is in a nested repeater.

On the SearchWP forum I found an interesting thread, it’s dev looks like he’d like to make it work with AFC repeaters, but doesn’t see any current options.
https://searchwp.com/support/topic/any-plans-for-a-future-support-for-the-repeater-field-of-advanced-custom-fields/

It looks like it could work if you use the ‘Any’ value.
https://searchwp.com/support/topic/would-like-to-include-acf-fields-in-search-results/

It would be nice to have sub_field references available globally in some way.

Even better a built in pathway from AFC to WP search.

Imagine a checkbox on a AFC field type creation form, “Make Searchable”, you check that on the stuff you want available, and Bam your custom content will show up in search results.