id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
21803,Add filter to make extending searching easier,mark8barnes,,"I'm using custom post types, and want to extend the search function so more than post_title and post_content are searched. It is currently possible to filter `posts_search` but that returns a string such as ` AND (((wp_posts.post_title LIKE '%test%') OR (wp_posts.post_content LIKE '%test%'))) `. This string then has to be rather messily manipulated via `preg_replace` or `str_replace`.

It would be more useful if we could filter a list of fields to be added to the search criteria, so that we could add a function to extend or change the criteria:

{{{
add_filter ('search_fields', 'my_custom_search_fields');

function my_custom_search_fields ($fields) {
    global $wpdb;
    $fields[] = ""{$wpdb->prefix}posts.post_excerpt"";
    return $fields;
}
}}}

The attached patch implements that filter.",enhancement,new,normal,Future Release,Query,3.4,normal,,has-patch needs-testing needs-unit-tests,mark8barnes azaozz info@…