How to use search for simple pods

Anonymous

#110799

Greetings:
I have a simple pod (Courses) (advanced Content Type), with several fields; name, author, units, etc ..
how can I have a search box for course names …
Pods are one of the post types under the General tab, but can’t manage to make the search work ..
any documentation, etc .. Thank You

Trevor

#110859

Are you using the Pods plugin?

Whilst we do support the basic content types made by PODS (CPTs and basic fields), we do not support the extended and relational fields created by PODS. It is possible we will look at this after we release V3 of our plugin (this will be the next major release that we do).

Anonymous

#110986

Yes, I use the plugin, I have the basic content types and trying to do a simple search box, is there any documentation or guide … Thank You

Trevor

#111188

The course name is a custom field, and you want to search using the text search box? The default state of S&F (which reflects what WordPress does) is to search only in The Post Title and Post Content. Not any Taxonomy or Custom Fields.

If you want to use Relevanssi plugin’s search engine and cache instead of the standard WordPress textual search engine, then Relevanssi has settings that allow this. You have to enable searching of the specific taxonomy(ies) and/or the custom field(s) in Relevanssi’s settings and then build the Relevanssi cache. You have to tell S&F to use Relevanssi in the S&F form’s advanced settings.

You could also use the WP Extended Search plugin to do much the same, but no special support is needed in S&F for this plugin, AFAIK.

Anonymous

#111365

Thank You Trevor for your help.
I installed the Relevanssi plugin, and I can’t make the index see the course names ..
probably not doing all the setting right but I don’t have documentations for pods in the Relevanssi plugin.
The pod (courses) is advanced Content Type and the field is Name (plain Text) ID 2270.
seem like a simple search but not sure how to proceed …
Thank You

Trevor

#111467

If the content is a custom field, you must set up the Custom Field settings in Relevanssi and enable Relevanssi in our plugin (advanced tab).

Anonymous

#111594

did so, followed all the instructions, it will only index all the pod fields titles … not the content of the custom field I entered the field ID 2270.. in the Custom fields to index space.
Thank You

Trevor

#111930

Then there must be something odd about the way that PODS does custom fields. With ACF this works. Whilst we support Relevanssi, we cannot control what Relevanssi supports.

Anonymous

#247721

this answer helped me thank you!

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