How do I create a form to search a custom post type

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1. just add

   <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="post type name" />
   

   to your search form and obviously replace post type name with your custom post type name.

   and to make sure that only your custom post type return as results add:

   function mySearchFilter_0987($query) {
       $post_type = $_GET['post_type'];
       if (!$post_type) {
           $post_type = 'any';
       }
       if ($query->is_search) {
           $query->set('post_type', $post_type);
       };
       return $query;
   };
   
   add_filter('pre_get_posts','mySearchFilter_0987'); 
   

   Hope this helps

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