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WP-Admin Search Post Meta

by meloniq

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Description

Enhance the default WordPress admin search by including custom fields (post meta) in search results.
This plugin seamlessly extends the post listing (edit.php) search functionality, allowing administrators to quickly find content based on values stored in custom fields.

It works out of the box with no configuration required—just activate and start searching.
Especially useful for sites that rely heavily on custom fields, such as those built with ACF or other meta-based data structures.

Lightweight, efficient, and fully integrated with the native WordPress admin experience.

  1. Upload the folder ‘wp-admin-search-meta’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
It does not work, what to do?

Report it with details on support forum.

Excellent

By yousefmansour on January 19, 2024

Thanks so much! The plugin does exactly what I needed.

Works fine after update

By dleeward on September 8, 2022

Does what it says it will do.

No longer working

By al8t3 on December 14, 2016

I am (was) using this with WooCommerce, previous to today it was working great but today I updated both WordPress and WooCommerce to the latest version and it no longer works. In fact it break the admin search entirely, disabling it returns things back to the default admin search. Seeing as it hasn't been updated in 2 years I don't expect it to be brought back from the dead.

Still works great!

By WilksGRendai on September 3, 2016

Despite getting old, this still works beautifully.
Install it, goto an admin page search field, enter something - bosh! Results.

I use it to search over 50,000 products for UPC/EAN barcodes I've entered as custom meta on woocommerce products, and the searches come back in seconds - on shared hosting!

Nicely done!

Coooool!

By tinyCoder on September 3, 2016

Great job great joB! Life saver!

Exactly what I was looking for.

By JayNeely on September 3, 2016

Thanks for this plugin; really useful.

Works with Advanced Custom Fields, works for searching custom post types as well.

0.4

  • Fixed coding standards reported by PHPCS
  • Rename and move file with the main class

0.3

  • Fixed compatibility with version 4.9 and higher

0.2

  • Fixed issue with displaying multiple times the same post

0.1

  • Initial release
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