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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › General Discussion › Search widget doesn't search in sidebar?

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Tagged: search sidebar results

  • This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 7 months ago by Victor Font.
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  • December 9, 2015 at 1:59 pm #173360
    CeeInTx
    Participant

    Is this right, ya'll?

    The standard Search widget does not include any text in the primary sidebar in the results?

    Actually, I just reinstalled it so I could post a url for you and now it's not finding any results anywhere...

    Any ideas?

    Theme: Modern Portfolio Pro

    http://quicklube.com
    December 10, 2015 at 2:18 pm #173474
    gordonium
    Member

    I think is actually a WordPress weakness. Per this post, widget content is not searched: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-content-in-search-results

    In looking through the advanced search plugins, none claim to be able to search widget content :/


    Gordon
    Copper Leaf Creative

    December 11, 2015 at 11:50 am #173549
    CeeInTx
    Participant

    Gordon, thanks so much for your response!

    This is, indeed, unfortunate!

    December 11, 2015 at 11:31 pm #173587
    Victor Font
    Moderator

    You could add a Google Custom Search to your site: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-add-google-custom-search-to-wordpress-without-any-plugin-video-tutorial-3967


    Regards,

    Victor
    https://victorfont.com/
    Call us toll free: 844-VIC-FONT (842-3668)
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