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@…