Search page not matching autocomplete results

Good day

Throwing out some extra information for the overall scope of what I’m seeing.

If your Autocomplete settings are using “All Posts”, the first item listed, then it would also be querying from wp_searchable_posts index. However, if it’s using anything else, like perhaps “Pages” then it’s querying from multiple indexes, for example wp_posts_page and each index has its own individual configurations.

Understandably by name, the Search Page and wp_searchable_posts are going to index all post types that aren’t set to exclude_from_search => true for the registration settings.

That said, there ARE filters available to limit the post types that go into this index. If I recall right, you can use this filter below, and have it return just page for the moment.

// Add a searchable posts index.
$searchable_post_types = get_post_types(
	array(
		'exclude_from_search' => false,
	),
	'names'
);
$searchable_post_types = (array) apply_filters( 'algolia_searchable_post_types', $searchable_post_types );

However, you’d still need to make any configuration changes to match any made on wp_posts_page index, to wp_searchable_posts. THAT SAID though, as you mention above, you’re already using the searchable posts based filters already in places, so that may not be needed as much.

The fact that content is being found for the autocomplete and not instantsearch says something isn’t quite matching somewhere.

Hi again @tw2113 – sorry, feel like I’m being such a pain but I’m so close!!

So limiting searchable_posts to just pages now works thanks to the above:

add_filter( 'algolia_searchable_post_types', function( array $post_types ) {
    $post_types = ['page'];

    return $post_types;
} );

So now my wp_posts_page index and my wp_searchable_posts index are both the same and just contain pages – so that’s great for now whilst I’m getting up and running.

The biggie now is that on my Search page, instantsearch is not seeing acf_content which I’ve verified IS present on the searchable_posts index – do I need to configure instantsearch.php somehow so that it searches this field?

Oh I think I’ve found something…

OK so on my wp_posts_page index – in Algolia under configuration, acf_content is present. However on wp_searchable_posts it’s not!

I guess that is the reason? But when I try to Add a Searchable attribute in the Algolia admin, acf_content is not available – even though it is present at least on some of the records?

Any ideas?

@tw2113 – figured it out. I just needed to add add_filter( 'algolia_searchable_posts_index_settings', '\App\my_posts_index_settings' ); to my filters.php, then in instantsearch.php I changed to this:

<# if ( data._snippetResult['acf_content'] ) { #>
          <span class="suggestion-post-content ais-hits--content-snippet">data._snippetResult['acf_content'].value</span>
          <# }else if( data._snippetResult['content'] ) { #>
          <span class="suggestion-post-content ais-hits--content-snippet">data._snippetResult['acf_content'].value</span>
          <# } #>

Works! ??

• This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by the_lar.

Correct on everything above, from what I’m seeing. I believe the biggest wrench here was probably the separate indexes going on, and that each gets their own settings.

Now that it looks like you have the same settings going to each, things are working better.

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