Search not finding CPT content?

sage
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At this following staging URL: http://goo.gl/FFVfRA - We have a sage theme that for some reason won’t allow for searching of CPTs. We tried a number of things, including adding multiple advanced searching plugins but nothing seems to allow for the searching of CPT content.

For example, a search for “Concussions” should bring up a search results page that references the most recent blog post (which is currently being pulled from a CPT for other reasons I won’t get in to).

Anyone have issues with this and what can we do to resolve this?

2

How are you currently attempting to include the sports CPT in your search results?

3

We’ve tried:

Search Everything:

and Relevanssi:

I also believe that I remember reading somewhere that we shouldn’t even need to use these because of Sage’s default search already allowing for this?

Here’s the CPT that we are trying to index: https://www.dropbox.com/s/di4a967uhnlcxyf/Screenshot%202016-07-19%2011.36.22.png?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqftdet3uys9w16/Screenshot%202016-07-19%2011.37.00.png?dl=0

Any additional insight would be greatly appreciated.

4

Are you able to find the CPT content without a plugin? Without ruling out issues with those plugins it’s difficult to determine whether this is Roots related, plugin related, or just a general WP support issue.

5

Sage doesn’t add anything for CPT’s or searches, so this is incorrect.

6

With the plugins disabled, this doesn’t work either.

7

What I mean is, are you able to try adding the CPTs to your search query without a plugin to verify that there’s an issue with Sage?

8

If i’m understanding correctly, you’re asking if we have the CPT “query_var” set to “true”? We are currently using the CPT UI plugin to make the CPT. Within that plugin, the query_var option is set to true:

There’s also this option:

Which is set to “false”.

9

You’re not understanding correctly.

Try adding the CPT to a search query to narrow down whether it’s an issue with Sage.

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Thanks guys! This helped point me in the right direction on this one. It appears that a developer, somewhere along the way, added this to the functions.php file:

function SearchFilter($query) {
  if ($query->is_search) {
    $query->set('post_type', 'post');
  }
  return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','SearchFilter');

That might explain it :wink: - All fixed now. Thanks guys, definitely wasn’t a Sage specific issue on this one.

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11

was dealing with the same thing. thanks for sharing.