[Resolved] Custom search: author field

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[benjaminH-7]

Hi,

we´ve got a astro photo gallery and the people would like to filter by author, who posted the image post. The post is created by toolset and also the upload form. I´ve created a custom search: hidden link but I can´t find any field for search by author or filter by author.

How can I achieve this?

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[Minesh]

Hello. Thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

Filtering view results based on the custom search using dropdown select of author is not supported.

However - Can you please confirm you want to list all users with dropdown select with author role or only the users belongs to XYZ post type?

But fortunately I have workaround for this. Can you please send me problem URL where you want to add the post author custom search filter as well as admin access details.

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[Minesh]

It seems you forget to answer the following question:

However - Can you please confirm you want to list all users with dropdown select with author role or only the users belongs to XYZ post type?

[benjaminH-7]

Sorry, I would like to display only users which are attached to the post type "astrofoto" Is there only a dropdown or also a input field with search completion?

[Minesh]

Well - each user is unique entity so I suggest you should go with dropdown select.

Can you please check now: hidden link

I've added the following custom shortcode to "Custom Code" section that will help to display the author dropdown select:
=> hidden link

add_shortcode("custom-search-author-filter", "func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype");
function func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype() {
  

  $out = '<select name="author-filter" class="wpcf-form-select form-select select">';
  $out = $out.'<option value="">Select Author</option>';
  $users = get_users();
  
  $users = get_users(array(
    'who' => 'authors',
    'has_published_posts' => array('astrofoto'),
     ));
  
  
  $author_filter = '';
  if(isset($_GET['author-filter'])){
      $author_filter = $_GET['author-filter'];
  }
  foreach ($users as $user) {
    $selected = '';
    if($author_filter == $user->ID){
        $selected = ' selected';
    }
    $out = $out.'<option value="' . $user->ID . '"' . $selected . '>' . $user->display_name . '</option>';
  }
  $out = $out."</select>";
  return $out;
}

To your view's search section I've added the shrotcode block and added the above shortcode as given under:
=> hidden link

[custom-search-author-filter]

And to your view I've added the post author query filter:

Post author filter
Select posts with the author's id determined by the URL parameter "author-filter" eg. yoursite/page-with-this-view/?author-filter=1

Screenshot: hidden link

More info:
- https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/adding-custom-code/using-toolset-to-add-custom-code/
- https://toolset.com/documentation/legacy-features/views-plugin/filtering-views-query-by-author/#post-author-is-set-by-url-parameter

Can you please confirm it works as expected now.

[benjaminH-7]

Thanks, there are different roles: subscriber and author. Can you please update the php script?

[Minesh]

What you mean - Can you please explain in brief?

[benjaminH-7]

The user filter contains two different roles: subscriber and author.

[Minesh]

You mean instead of using the user name you want to display role names with Author filter?

[benjaminH-7]

No. Currently at the author filter there are displayed 4 users, but there are plenty of others users. It is caused by
$users = get_users(array(
'who' => 'authors',

which is not correct, because there are also users with the role "subscriber" which should be displayed.

[Minesh]

Ahh ok - I've updated the scrip as given under:

add_shortcode("custom-search-author-filter", "func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype");
function func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype() {
  

  $out = '<select name="author-filter" class="js-wpv-filter-trigger">';
  $out = $out.'<option value="">Select Author</option>';
  $users = get_users();
  
  $users = get_users(array(
        'has_published_posts' => array('astrofoto'),
     ));
  
  
  $author_filter = '';
  if(isset($_GET['author-filter'])){
      $author_filter = $_GET['author-filter'];
  }
  foreach ($users as $user) {
    $selected = '';
    if($author_filter == $user->ID){
        $selected = ' selected';
    }
    $out = $out.'<option value="' . $user->ID . '"' . $selected . '>' . $user->display_name . '</option>';
  }
  $out = $out."</select>";
  return $out;
}

Can you please confirm now it's working as expected.

[benjaminH-7]

Thanks, what is the reason, that the list is not sorted correctly by a-z?

[Minesh]

I've again adjusted the code as given under:

add_shortcode("custom-search-author-filter", "func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype");
function func_get_all_authors_belongs_posttype() {
  

  $out = '<select name="author-filter" class="js-wpv-filter-trigger">';
  $out = $out.'<option value="">Select Author</option>';
  $users = get_users();
  
  $users = get_users(array(
        'orderby'=>'display_name',
        'order'=>'ASC',
        'has_published_posts' => array('astrofoto'),
     ));
  
  
  $author_filter = '';
  if(isset($_GET['author-filter'])){
      $author_filter = $_GET['author-filter'];
  }
  foreach ($users as $user) {
    $selected = '';
    if($author_filter == $user->ID){
        $selected = ' selected';
    }
    $out = $out.'<option value="' . $user->ID . '"' . $selected . '>' . $user->display_name . '</option>';
  }
  $out = $out."</select>";
  return $out;
}

I hope this is resolved now and I urge you to open a new ticket with every new question you may have. This will help other users searching on the forum as well as help us to write correct problem resolution summery for the original issue reported with this ticket.

Thank you for understanding and glad to help.