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copied!<p>The outlined solutions are poor. Editing the core impedes on upgradeability of the WordPress install - you'll have to repeat that change every time you update, which you should be doing. The other solution places unnecessary load on the database by filtering results <em>after</em> retrieving them. The better solution:</p> <p>In your theme's functions.php, add a new function to write out a search form:</p> <pre><code>function custom_search_form( $form, $value = "Search", $post_type = 'post' ) { $form_value = (isset($value)) ? $value : attribute_escape(apply_filters('the_search_query', get_search_query())); $form = '<form method="get" id="searchform" action="' . get_option('home') . '/" > <div> <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="'.$post_type.'" /> <input type="text" value="' . $form_value . '" name="s" id="s" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="'.attribute_escape(__('Search')).'" /> </div> </form>'; return $form; } </code></pre> <p>Now, in the template where you want the form (or within any widgets you've created, this could easily be registered as a widget instead), this:</p> <pre><code><?= custom_search_form( null, 'Search posts', 'post'); ?> </code></pre> <p>The arguments could be left out from the function & call, but I find them helpful. The key to this whole thing is the hidden input 'post_type', which passes the value to the query. The default, <code>post</code>, will ensure only posts are returned.</p>

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