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Posted by Liam Mitchell-Dolby
Liam Mitchell-Dolby
5,666 Points

I'm trying to create a custom search form on my Wordpress site that only searches a particular custom post type.

Essentially on my website I have a Meet the Team page that displays all team members on the page. The team members are a custom post type called "staff". I want to build a search form on the page that narrows the team list by name or category, but I can't get the search form to only display results from the custom post type.

I've tried several tutorials I've found online but none of the solutions work! I can't resolve this problem. Can anyone help? Has anyone had this problem?

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

What code have you written so far?

Liam Mitchell-Dolby
Liam Mitchell-Dolby
5,666 Points

Form so far looks like this: <form id="team-search" role="team-search" method="get" class="topbttmpadding" action="<?php echo get_permalink( '/' ); ?>"> <label> <span class="offscreen"><?php echo x( 'Category:', 'label' ) ?></span> <?php $swp_cat_dropdown_args = array( 'show_option_all' => _( 'Any Service' ), 'name' => 'cat', 'exclude' => 1, ); wp_dropdown_categories( $swp_cat_dropdown_args ); ?> </label> <label> <span class="offscreen"><?php echo _x( 'Name search:', 'label' ) ?></span> <input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="<?php echo esc_attr_x( 'Search', 'placeholder' ) ?>" value="<?php echo get_search_query() ?>" name="s" title="<?php echo esc_attr_x( 'Search for:', 'label' ) ?>" /> </label> <input type="image" alt="Submit search query" src="<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/img/search-icon.png"> <input type="hidden" value="staff" name="post_type" id="post_type" /> </form>