I have been trying to find a way to get a (user) entry in a ACF field to be found via native search. I have checked out things like this and this but I can never get any searchable results.
Is there a special trick for the Users field?
Hi @opus13
ACF saves the custom fields for users in the wp_usermeta table. If you want to query it, please take a look at this page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query#Custom_Field_Parameters
I hope this helps 🙂
Hi @opus13,
In addition,
Kindly have a look at the following plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/
that may help you out.
Hope this helps.
This was the trick. Thanks!
Quick update for future reference: Damn. Relevanssi doesn’t work on repeater fields.
Hi, I had tried that as well previously –http://i.imgur.com/7eC5FB6.png
No Luck. :/
Hi @opus13
Have you tried to add the content dynamically like the following?
$fields = get_field('userlist', $post->ID);
if($fields){
foreach($fields as $field){
$content .= " " . $field['user']['user_firstname'] . " " . $field['user']['user_lastname'];
}
}
That code will add the user first and last name in the search excerpt.
Hope this helps 🙂
Hi, I haven’t tried it in the past.. but no luck. No additional content is populated in the post.
Hi @opus13
That code is supposed to be placed inside the relevanssi_excerpt_content hook. Please check the comment link I gave you before. I think it should be something like this:
add_filter('relevanssi_excerpt_content', 'custom_fields_to_excerpts', 10, 3);
function custom_fields_to_excerpts($content, $post, $query) {
$fields = get_field('userlist', $post->ID);
if($fields){
foreach($fields as $field){
$content .= " " . $field['user']['user_firstname'] . " " . $field['user']['user_lastname'];
}
}
return $content;
}
Please keep in mind that this function is used to add the repeater’s content to the Relevanssi’s search excerpt, not your post excerpt.
I hope this makes sense 🙂
Nope, no luck either.
Looking through the user fields in the DB I noticed that there are no references at all to ‘user_firstname’ or ”user_firstname’. Are those explicit internal values used by WordPress?
Hi @opus13
Could you please open a new ticket here: https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/new-ticket? In that ticket, could you please provide temporary credentials to your site? Also, please explain the issue in that ticket or add the link to this thread.
Thanks 🙂
