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[Resolved] A search on a particular field is not returning results

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Last updated by Barney Chastain 4 years, 6 months ago.

Assisted by: Nigel.

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#1611231

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Create a search on a post type called Moulding, to search through a particular field called "Moulding Details". All results return empty, even though that info is in several fields. I'm tesing with the search "T-105", "T-153", "dentil", or "bead".

This is the page in question: hidden link

Is there any documentation that you are following? I've been making several of these successfully, but don't see documentation for this particular thing.

Is there a similar example that we can see? Here are two other successful outputs:
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#1611883

Nigel
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Hi there

On the page you linked to there is no search, I'm guessing you removed it because it doesn't work.

What kind of field is "Moulding Details"? Just a single line text field?

And you added a custom search filter for this field, shown as a text input?

Or did you add a text search filter to the View?

Because that's not the same, it will only search the post title and post content, not custom fields (unless you add the Relevanssi plugin).

#1619949

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!