Custom Post type search not working

Anonymous

#106083

My search form for a custom post type is not searching within the fields of the custom post type. Instead, I am getting search results from the “post” post type.

Trevor

#106145

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Anonymous

#106221

The site is on localhost. I dont know how you can get access to it. I followed the instructions in the doc as to how to setup a second search form. The two search forms have the same settings, except for the post type. Maybe I am missing something.

Trevor

#106227

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Anonymous

#106234

Sorry, dont have skype or microphone. Can i email you the screenshots of my settings?

Trevor

#106236

If you could put them up on a screenshare site, like cloudup? Then give me the links?

Anonymous

#106239

Ok, will do that, thanks.

Anonymous

#106253

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Trevor

#106273

Ok, so all I can do is ‘observe’ these screenshots – if you are new to Cloudup, I hoped you liked how easy it was?

You have Force is_search to always be true ON. This is not normal.
Also, Maintain Search Form State is ON. again, not usually a good idea.

The results URL I assume is a page, but why is it a sub-page? Normally, Search & Filter might not like this.

On the results page, you should have two matching shortcodes, but you have edited the results.php template. If you used the default results.php template, does it then have the right results (but look bad)?

What theme are you using?

Do you use Visual Composer in this site?

Anonymous

#106306

No, i dont have Visual Composer . I use my own theme. The problem might be the theme. The Search works with WP default theme, but not with my custom theme. I will try to find out what’s the problem with the theme and get back to you. Thanks.

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