I'm setting up custom Woocommerce search functionality relying on pre_get_posts and URL queries, on the Woocommerce product category pages. The taxonomy and meta value filters are working fine, but I'm having trouble adding a keyword search (that I want to search the product titles and descriptions). I have a text input in the search form that appends to the url as ?partdescription=FOO, and I'm trying to grab that variable and insert it into the main query.
This is what I have so far:
add_action('pre_get_posts','alter_query');
function alter_query($query) {
global $wp_query;
// checks if we're on a shop category page
if ($query->is_main_query() && is_product_category()) {
// Set up Filters from URL Query
$urlQuery = $_GET;
// Part Description
$description = isset($urlQuery['partdescription']) ? $urlQuery['partdescription'] : NULL;
// Only modify the query for the parts category
if ($query->query_vars['product_cat'] == 'parts') {
if (!empty($description)) $query->set('s', $description);
}
}
}
This approach worked fine for setting taxonomy and meta queries, but modifying 's' throws a whole bunch of errors like this:
[19-Jul-2018 20:47:59 UTC] WordPress database error Unknown column 'Array' in 'group statement' for query SELECT wp_posts.* FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND wp_posts.ID IN (129,131,132,150,151,152,256,257,258,259,260,263,271,272,273,275,321,371,427,428) AND wp_posts.post_type = 'nav_menu_item' AND ((wp_posts.post_status = 'publish')) GROUP BY Array ORDER BY wp_posts.menu_order ASC made by require('wp-blog-header.php'), require_once('wp-includes/template-loader.php'), include('/themes/x/woocommerce.php'), x_get_view, X_View_Router::render, include('/themes/cvbs/framework/views/integrity/woocommerce.php'), get_header, locate_template, load_template, require_once('/themes/x/header.php'), x_get_view, X_View_Router::render, include('/themes/x/framework/legacy/cranium/headers/views/header/base.php'), x_get_view, X_View_Router::render, include('/themes/cvbs/framework/legacy/cranium/headers/views/integrity/wp-header.php'), x_get_view, X_View_Router::render, include('/themes/x/framework/legacy/cranium/headers/views/global/_navbar.php'), x_get_view, X_View_Router::render, include('/themes/x/framework/legacy/cranium/headers/views/global/_nav-primary.php'), ubermenu, wp_nav_menu, wp_get_nav_menu_items, get_posts, WP_Query->query, WP_Query->get_posts
It also makes my main navigation and widget menus disappear.
Any help would be appreciated!
EDIT July 24th:
Still trucking away on this, and I've found a few similar issues here and here. The solution on those posts was to use $query->is_main_query(), but I'm already using that check in my code. The only difference I could note between those issues and mine is that they were for setting meta_key, while I'm trying to set s. Is s something that can only be modified on a search page? Is there any way I can mimic its functionality on an archive page?
