[Plugin: Relevanssi – A Better Search] Pages & Products = No Results

What is the value of $wp_query->query_vars[‘post_type’] when you do a search?

I’m enough of a noob not to know where to find that value. Can you help me out?

-L

Hi Mikko –

I apologize – I only just realized what you were asking. The search returns no results.

https://walkeraudio.com/?s=%24wp_query-%3Equery_vars%5B%27post_type%27%5D&post_type=post

Thoughts?

-Liam

No, that’s not what I was asking…

Put this on your search results template and then do a search:

var_dump($wp_query->query_vars['post_type']);

I pasted the above into my searchform.php file in the root of my theme. I didn’t know where to paste it, so I just did so at the end of the existing code.

After doing so, the above: var_dump($wp_query->query_vars[‘post_type’]); now appears under the error message “Not Found” on my results page.

Any thoughts?

Change it to this:

<?php var_dump($wp_query->query_vars['post_type']); ?>

It now reads “NULL” under the error.

-Liam

Hmm… Anyway, I think the problem is that something in your site restricts the search to posts only. That causes the search to fail when no posts are in the index. It’s probably your theme, somehow. If you can copy your search results template to a pastebin and show it to me, I can take a look at it.

<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
    <div><label class="screen-reader-text" for="s"><?php echo apply_filters( 'yiw_searchform_label', __( 'Search for:', 'yiw' ) ) ?></label>
        <input type="text" value="<?php the_search_query(); ?>" name="s" id="s" />
        <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php echo apply_filters( 'yiw_searchform_submit_label', __( 'Search', 'yiw' ) ) ?>" />
        <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="<?php echo apply_filters( 'yiw_searchform_post_type', 'post' ) ?>" />
    </div>
</form>

Is this what you needed?

-Liam

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I asked for search results template, not search form, but actually, here’s the key:

<input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="<?php echo apply_filters( 'yiw_searchform_post_type', 'post' ) ?>" />

This line here restricts the search to posts only. Remove it, and everything should be fine.

Beautiful. Thanks so much for your patience and help, Mikko!

-Liam