I’ve asked our other devs around the plugin here and they’re saying it shouldn’t be affecting searching, however I am not outright dismissing what’s going on for you.
I do know I’m seeing this which gets used a lot in the Algolia_Search class:
/**
* Determines if we should filter the query passed as argument.
*
* @author WebDevStudios <[email protected]>
* @since 1.0.0
*
* @param WP_Query $query The WP_Query to check.
*
* @return bool
*/
private function should_filter_query( WP_Query $query ) {
$should_filter = ! $query->is_admin && $query->is_search() && $query->is_main_query();
/**
* Allow developers to override the return value of <code>should_filter_query()</code>.
*
* @since 1.3.0
*
* @param bool $should_filter Whether Algolia should filter the search query.
* @param WP_Query $query The WP_Query that was tested for Algolia Search filtering.
*/
return (bool) apply_filters(
'algolia_should_filter_query',
$should_filter,
$query
);
}
I’m curious if maybe something is changing that to true in your case, perhaps?