I am using autocomplete code as follows:
functions.php
// add the ajax fetch js
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'ajax_fetch' );
function ajax_fetch() {
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
function fetch(){
jQuery.ajax({
url: '<?php echo admin_url('admin-ajax.php'); ?>',
type: 'post',
data: { action: 'data_fetch', keyword: jQuery('#keyword').val() },
success: function(data) {
jQuery('#datafetch').html( data );
}
});
}
</script>
<?php }
// the ajax function
add_action('wp_ajax_data_fetch' , 'data_fetch');
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_data_fetch','data_fetch');
function data_fetch(){
$the_query = new WP_Query(
array(
'posts_per_page' => -1,
's' => esc_attr( $_POST['keyword'] ),
'post_type' => 'post',
),
);
if( $the_query->have_posts() ) :
?><ul><?php
while( $the_query->have_posts() ): $the_query->the_post();
$myquery = esc_attr( $_POST['keyword'] );
$a = $myquery;
$search = get_the_title();
if( stripos("/{$search}/", $a) !== false) {?>
<li><a class="articles-link" href="<?php echo esc_url( post_permalink() ); ?>"><?php the_title();?></a> by <?php the_author(); ?></li>
<?php }
endwhile;
wp_reset_postdata();
?></ul><?php
endif;
die();
}
Page template.php
<input type="text" name="keyword" id="keyword" onkeyup="fetch()"></input>
<div id="datafetch">Search results will appear here</div>
This works great for autocomplete searching of posts, but I am having great difficulty allowing it to search by author name (with role->author) instead of, or as well as post title.
I have tried to use a WP_User_Query in place of the WP_Query like so:
$args = array (
'role' => 'author',
's' => esc_attr( $_POST['keyword'] ),
);
$user_query = new WP_User_Query( $args );
if ( ! empty( $user_query->results ) ) {
foreach ( $user_query->results as $user ) {
echo '<li><span>' . esc_html( $user->display_name ) . '</span></li>';
}
}
die();
}
This just brings up the list of every author. Is there a way to run a WP_User_Query with a while( $the_query->have_posts() ): $the_query->the_post(); instead of a foreach ( $user_query->results as $user ) {? Or is there some other way to allow the search to bring up an autocompleted list of posts by way of a username search? I can’t figure out how.
Thank you
