Post Object search for post/pages

• acfbeginner12

• October 15, 2021 at 7:03 am

Hi,

i use a Post Object Field for selecting pages (for showing related posts on the website).

The website has more than 2000 pages.

If I enter a keyword (or start tying a keyword) in the selection field, I get a lot of results. Is it possible to limit the results so that only results with the exact keyword in the title are displayed?

That would help me a lot!

Another Question: Is it possible to copy the content of a selection field and paste it into another selection field?

Thanks a lot for helping me!

Andreas

• Vayu Robins

• October 22, 2021 at 5:39 am

I have the same issue. I don’t know if it also searches the post content maybe?

• jarvis

• October 22, 2021 at 6:00 am

Whilst it may not help, you could possibly do something like:

add_filter('acf/fields/post_object/query/key=field_5f72f88aca170', 'my_acf_fields_post_object_query', 10, 3);
function my_acf_fields_post_object_query( $args, $field, $post_id ) {

    $args['post_status'] = 'publish';

    return $args;
}

This would only show published posts.

As you can see from the docs, it uses WP_Query

So unless you can amend how that works to a more exact search, I don’t think it would be possible.

• Vayu Robins

• October 22, 2021 at 8:31 am

Thanks Jarvis.
I see that to do this, one would have to filter the search query and it becomes quite harry. https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/11822/how-to-limit-search-to-post-titles