Gallery images do not turn up under website search

@yingkie – Without a link to your site, it will be very difficult to know what is going on … also, depending on the search algorithm your site is using will also affect what results it will return. This may be even more important to note.

Thanks!

– Cais.

Not to jump in front of @yingkie, I’m having the same issue. I’ve tried numerous search plugin but none seem to find my images. I can use the gallery search plugin but that only allows me to search. I would like to allow my visitors to search.
Thanks!

https://www.katiespix.com/family

@yingkie

You said ‘search for the gallery images’ so I take that to mean pages …jpg or ..bmp etc etc.

In my (albeit limited) experience of standard theme/WP search there seem to be limitations to what they can find.

They don’t seem very successful with plugins like NextGEN where the pages are produced by the plugins are not physically pages that you can see or edit under the Posts or Pages tabs.

I would assume a search function navigates (‘find’, then ‘find next’ until empty set kind of thing) through the WordPress database looking for posts and pages using some form of ‘type’ element/code and that perhaps NextGEN internal pages are not the same/right ‘type’? Or there’s no database set/relationship for them traverse. Images are not pages, presumably they are objects so wouldn’t be found without a bespoke search function being written/available.

There are some search plugins available that are suppose to integrate with the built-in WP search. However, not all themes play well with the plugins. They are able to grab the description, tags and title of the images and post them just as a regular search. You must setup the search plugin what to search for and all of NextGEN’s info is not public thus the reason the basic WP search can not find it.
I don’t know why basic search functionality wasn’t built into NextGEN to begin with. Why allow tags and everything else if one can’t search for it?