Reply To: Search form with meta_field

• James

• December 5, 2016 at 12:35 pm

Hi @beee

I think your approach is the best method for this situation. You can also use the $_POST variable to get the field you want to search. So, you should be able to do it like this:

<input type="hidden" name="custom_field" value="field_name" />

And modify the query like this:

if( isset($_POST['custom_field']) ){
    // set the meta query for your specific field
    $query->set( 'meta_query', array(
        'key'       => $_POST['custom_field'],
        'value'     => $query->query['s']
    ) );
}

I hope this makes sense 🙂