Custom Excerpts w/Results Removes Footer

This sounds like an error situation. Something in your posts causes the excerpt-building to trigger a fatal error. Your server PHP error log may provide some clue to what is happening.

Does this happen always for all searches?

Thanks, Mikko. This does happen always for any search that yields results. If there are no results, then it doesn’t happen. A couple of things I’ve tested since I last wrote:

• I checked the error log. The only thing in there is the following notice: Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in [project-name]/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 2809. That error goes away if I try to downgrade to a 7.x version of PHP.
• Tested the removal of the while loop that includes the_post() and the_excerpt() from the template if it has results and replaced it with a simple string that states “You have results.” It still happens.

I’m sort of at a loss for the time being. I’ll keep pushing on my end to see if I find a solution.

One thing I didn’t mention earlier – I’m building the site using ACF Blocks. Not sure if that plays a part but figured I’d bring it up.

Does anything I’ve mentioned here sound odd to you?

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by hokua.

ACF Blocks may well be a part of the problem. If this issue comes up with any search results, it’s related to something in all posts. What if you blank out the post content?

add_filter( 'relevanssi_excerpt_content', function( $content ) {
  return '';
} );

Do you still get the error?

I still got the error when adding the filter, but you led me to believe it is due to content in ACF Blocks. So I did some testing, and it was, but the error was on my end. A duplicate get_footer() in one of the blocks was killing the footer. That’ll do it.

Long story short: problem solved. Sorry for taking your time, and thank you for leading me in the right direction.