Storefront Theme Search Bar

Hi @psalterproject – Thanks for starting a new thread over here for me. ??

I started looking into this on my on test site by creating two products that are duplicates of ones on your site: https://d.pr/i/xCHJim & https://d.pr/i/rLrPhB

Once those were created, I typed come thou (without the comma) into my site’s search bar (where I also use the Storefront theme): https://d.pr/i/PEjQu1

What this tells me is that while, yes, WooCommerce does have some say in what shows up there, something else may be causing your search results to not return what they should.

Can you send me a copy of your site’s system status report? You can find that by going to the follow page in your admin dashboard: WooCommerce > Status > ‘Get system report’

I’ve copied the status report below.

It also just hit me… I’m using a Storefront child theme (created by someone else; I “inherited” management of this website). Could that be contributing to the issue?

### WordPress Environment ###

WordPress address (URL): https://gregscheer.com
Site address (URL): https://gregscheer.com
WC Version: 6.0.0
REST API Version: ? 6.0.0
WC Blocks Version: ? 6.3.3
Action Scheduler Version: ? 3.3.0
WC Admin Version: ? 2.9.4
Log Directory Writable: ?
WP Version: 5.8.2
WP Multisite: –
WP Memory Limit: 256 MB
WP Debug Mode: –
WP Cron: ?
Language: en_US
External object cache: –

### Server Environment ###

Server Info: Apache
PHP Version: 7.4.25
PHP Post Max Size: 64 MB
PHP Time Limit: 50000
PHP Max Input Vars: 5000
cURL Version: 7.64.0
OpenSSL/1.1.1d

SUHOSIN Installed: –
MySQL Version: 5.5.5-10.5.12-MariaDB-1:10.5.12+maria~buster-log
Max Upload Size: 64 MB
Default Timezone is UTC: ?
fsockopen/cURL: ?
SoapClient: ?
DOMDocument: ?
GZip: ?
Multibyte String: ?
Remote Post: ?
Remote Get: ?

### Database ###

WC Database Version: 6.0.0
WC Database Prefix: wp_ba617e1a58_
Total Database Size: 63.72MB
Database Data Size: 47.88MB
Database Index Size: 15.84MB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_sessions: Data: 0.06MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_api_keys: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_downloadable_product_permissions: Data: 0.08MB + Index: 0.14MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_order_items: Data: 0.06MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_order_itemmeta: Data: 0.23MB + Index: 0.25MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_tax_rates: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.06MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_tax_rate_locations: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_woocommerce_payment_tokens: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_actionscheduler_claims: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_actionscheduler_logs: Data: 0.20MB + Index: 0.19MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_activecampaign_for_woocommerce_abandoned_cart: Data: 0.08MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_brizy_logs: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_duplicator_packages: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_links: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_ms_payments: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_nxs_log: Data: 0.06MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_nxs_query: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_options: Data: 3.47MB + Index: 0.20MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_relevanssi_log: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_relevanssi_stopwords: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.00MB + Engine InnoDB
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wp_ba617e1a58_yith_wcwl: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.02MB + Engine InnoDB
wp_ba617e1a58_yith_wcwl_lists: Data: 0.02MB + Index: 0.03MB + Engine InnoDB

### Post Type Counts ###

attachment: 1002
blocks: 8
brizy-project: 1
custom_css: 1
customize_changeset: 5
flamingo_contact: 52
flamingo_inbound: 58
ms-albums: 1
ms-artists: 1
ms-music: 20
ms-plans: 3
ms-radios: 7
nav_menu_item: 19
oembed_cache: 2
page: 17
podcast: 7
post: 21
product: 215
product_variation: 239
revision: 396
shop_order: 248
wpcf7_contact_form: 1
wpforms: 1

### Security ###

Secure connection (HTTPS): ?
Hide errors from visitors: ?

### Active Plugins (25) ###

ActiveCampaign for WooCommerce: by ActiveCampaign – 1.6.1
ActiveCampaign: by ActiveCampaign – 8.1.8
Akismet Anti-Spam: by Automattic – 4.2.1
Contact Form 7: by Takayuki Miyoshi – 5.5.3
Disable Theme and Plugin Auto-Update Emails: by KZeni – 1.0.4
Yoast Duplicate Post: by Enrico Battocchi & Team Yoast – 4.3
Duplicator: by Snap Creek – 1.4.3
Grid & List toggle for Woocommerce: by phoeniixx – 1.4.2
Health Check & Troubleshooting: by The www.ads-software.com community – 1.4.5
Jetpack: by Automattic – 10.4
Mediamatic: by plugincraft – 1.7
Nextend Social Login: by Nextendweb – 3.1.3
Redirection: by John Godley – 5.1.3
Relevanssi: by Mikko Saari – 4.14.4
Seriously Simple Podcasting: by Castos – 2.9.9
Seriously Simple Stats: by Castos – 1.3.0
Seriously Simple Transcripts: by Castos – 1.0.1
The Social Links: by Seagyn Davis – 2.0.5
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore: by UpdraftPlus.Com
DavidAnderson – 1.16.66

WooCommerce PayPal Payments: by WooCommerce – 1.6.3
WooCommerce Shipping & Tax: by WooCommerce – 1.25.20
WooCommerce: by Automattic – 6.0.0
WooSidebars: by WooCommerce – 1.4.5
WP Mail SMTP: by WPForms – 3.2.1
ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7: by IQComputing – 1.3.6

### Inactive Plugins (2) ###

Hello Dolly: by Matt Mullenweg – 1.7.2
WooCommerce PayPal Checkout Gateway: by WooCommerce – 2.1.3

### Must Use Plugins (1) ###

Health Check Troubleshooting Mode: by  – 1.7.1

### Settings ###

API Enabled: –
Force SSL: –
Currency: USD ($)
Currency Position: left
Thousand Separator: ,
Decimal Separator: .
Number of Decimals: 2
Taxonomies: Product Types: external (external)
grouped (grouped)
simple (simple)
variable (variable)

Taxonomies: Product Visibility: exclude-from-catalog (exclude-from-catalog)
exclude-from-search (exclude-from-search)
featured (featured)
outofstock (outofstock)
rated-1 (rated-1)
rated-2 (rated-2)
rated-3 (rated-3)
rated-4 (rated-4)
rated-5 (rated-5)

Connected to WooCommerce.com: –

### WC Pages ###

Shop base: #2301 - /shop/
Cart: #2302 - /cart/
Checkout: #2303 - /checkout/
My account: #2304 - /my-account/
Terms and conditions: ? Page not set

### Theme ###

Name: Storefront Child Theme
Version: 1.0.0
Author URL: https://stuartduff.com
Child Theme: ?
Parent Theme Name: Storefront
Parent Theme Version: 3.7.0 – 3.9.1 is available
Parent Theme Author URL: https://woocommerce.com/
WooCommerce Support: ?

### Templates ###

Overrides: storefront-child/woocommerce/archive-product.php
storefront-child/woocommerce/content-product.php
storefront-child/woocommerce/loop/no-products-found.php

### WooCommerce PayPal Payments ###

Onboarded: ?
Shop country code: US
WooCommerce currency supported: ?
PayPal card processing available in country: ?
Pay Later messaging available in country: ?
Webhook status: –
Vault enabled: ?
Logging enabled: –
Reference Transactions: –
Used PayPal Checkout plugin: ?

### Action Scheduler ###

Complete: 821
Oldest: 2021-11-22 11:31:16 -0500
Newest: 2021-12-23 06:00:23 -0500

Pending: 1
Oldest: 2021-12-23 10:46:30 -0500
Newest: 2021-12-23 10:46:30 -0500

### Status report information ###

Generated at: 2021-12-23 10:46:57 -05:00

Hi @psalterproject,

The search bar in the Storefront header is set to only search WooCommerce products. It’s still built with the default WordPress search, but it’s tied to the product custom post type.

What you could do is add a function to your child theme’s functions.php file to override the default search.

function storefront_product_search() {
		if ( storefront_is_woocommerce_activated() ) {
			?>
			<div class="site-search">
				<?php the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Search', 'title=' ); ?>
			</div>
			<?php
		}
	}

You would replace the <?php the_widget( 'WC_Widget_Product_Search', 'title=' ); ?> with the search you’d like to use.

See if that gets you pointed in the right direction.

Thanks!

We’ve not heard back from you in a while, so I’m marking this thread as resolved. If you have further questions, please feel free to open a new topic.