Search is completely broken

Hi @nikeo

for a WordCamp talk about page builder and the WordPress native search feature, I am testing page builders, and it looks like the search feature is completely broken for Nimble content.

WordPress is doing only a simple full text SQL search in post_content, post_title and post_excerpt. But Nimble seems to save its content under another ID and is referencing back to the original ID, therefore the internal search feature does not work anymore for content (as is looks at the wrong place). Only the title works (or if there is still some content from before in the post_content (aka the block editor content).

This happens on frontend and backend.

Would be great if I can report a “lesson learned” in my talk (although I wouldn’t call anyone out by name if it doesn’t work out for the talk). If the talk gets accepted, it will be in September, so there is (hopefully) enough time to look at this bug.

If you need more info/testing, please ping me!

All the best
Torsten