I'm considering creating a customized search box for my Wordpress website. I know very little php but I really want to learn so I thought this would be a good start. I see there are plugins for wordpress for customizing the search box for the posts, but I need something for pages as well. My question is do you think it's best to create my own customized search box than to use some sort of plugin for this. Every where I look, everyone says to use the google custom search. What I want to build is something that searches pages and gives the user the option to pick city, type of entertainment, restaurants, etc as dropdowns. That sort of thing. I think it's best that I try to build a customized search form myself, what do you think? Maybe that is too big a project for a newbe??
definitely sounds too complicated. if i am understanding your thoughts correctly, you should instead use some sort of filter. I'm not familiar with search plugins/ google custom search, so thats all the advice i can give you