Search box not returning post meta searches

Anonymous

#13877

So I have a form with a bunch of taxonomy checkboxes, a dropdown and an open search box. I want to give people the option to search or filter their results. All of the filters work as they should. The search box is supposed to let people search the post type by keywords (in custom fields) as well as by the post title. When you search by post title the search box works as expected. When you try to search by a word (that I know is in one of the custom fields for the post) the search returns no results. I’ve tried setting up a regular search box and seem to get the results without a problem that way.

I am using Ajax to display the results as well as a custom results.php file (in the child-theme folder). I’m also using the Search Everything plugin to modify the search to include metadata and taxonomies. Do you know why the search box doesn’t return any results (when i know that there are results with the specific keyword)?

Thanks for your help

Ross Moderator

#13888

Hey Tyler

The search box is not usually able to search within custom fields – I guess this is the functionality you have tried to achieve with the Search Everything plugin.

The only other search plugin we support officially is Relevanssi. Once you have this installed you will find an option to integrate it with S&F in the “advanced” tab.

This plugin will allow you to search in custom fields.

Thanks

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