only works when logged in as Admin

That points to an issue with your theme, but I can’t really tell the actual cause from the info you have provided. The more info that you can provide the better though, it’s very hard to help without having more detail.

Check that your theme is built correctly- see https://www.cookielawinfo.com/troubleshooting for details. If it’s still not working then let me know your URL and I can take a look.

Hello,

thank for reply.
the website is https://www.massimoguidottiarchitetto.it/
the theme is : https://themeforest.net/item/responsive-fullscreen-studio-for-wordpress/2026019

I wrote to theme developer and is response is:
“Hi,

Likely it’s not using the correct hooks. It’s best to check with the author of plugin first. The theme is written with WP standards. It might not be the same with other themes depending on the functions used. Twenty Eleven is a lightweight theme which only uses core features of WordPress.

Let me know what the plugin author says.”

Hi,

The plugin does use all the right hooks and is written using WP standards. It works with all of the standard WP themes and should work with all others too. It’s used by tens of thousands of websites with no issue. However I appreciate that none of that helps you fix it right now!

The issue sounds like either the plugin isn’t activated (which you say it is), maybe you are running some caching plugin that is affecting it, or perhaps it is the way your theme works with hooks and admin view. There again, it could be something completely different!

I think in this case it’s going to be very hard for either the theme author or plugin author to help because the issue is hidden from our direct view, only you can see it working in admin view and we cannot. Without looking through the PHP code in your theme (which I don’t support) there’s no way I can think of to diagnose the actual issue.

In all honesty, the simplest solution might be to try another cookie plugin, unless you have a web developer who can take a look. Sorry not to be of more help this time.

Ok solved,

it was a define(‘WP_CACHE’, true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager in wp-config.php file
changed manually to false and it work!

Thanks

Aha! Fantastic that you found the solution as that will likely help somebody else in the same situation, so thank you for posting it! Glad it is all working.

Hi Richard,

great plugin, really!

I curently have the nearly same issue:

– The widget integrates the proper searchbox, regardless if logged in or not;
– The widget redirects to search result page as shown in backend settings of Google Search Plugin with “&q=…”-Variable
– The target page shows “no results”, the std. wordpress search field and no results; also, the widget gets then a usual WP-search.

I deactivated all pluins. I use only a slightly adapted child theme of wp’s std-theme 2014.

I can’t imagine why it only works properly if i’m logged in=?!?!?

Many Thanks!

Thomas

PS: Using wp 4.1.8, Plun WP Googe Srach v1.0.4