Archive Search Text Search not recognizing product skus and other metadata

This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.

Problem:
The user would like to search for products using the SKU

Solution:
Toolset does not have its own search mechanism, it relies on the default WordPress search. The default WordPress search uses only the title and the description. If you want to include custom fields(SKU) in the search, you must use the Relevanssi plugin. Check our article about it here

Relevant Documentation:
https://toolset.com/course-lesson/searching-texts-in-custom-fields-with-toolset-and-relevanssi/

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Last updated by kennethK-4 2 years, 7 months ago.

Assisted by: Jamal.

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August 27, 2021 at 7:51 pm #2153921

kennethK-4

Tell us what you are trying to do?
Use the toolset archive search to include a text search box that the customer could use to search 100s of products and show results by sku content, title content, or other content (tags, categories, etc..) I have the filters setup for searching by category, tags, custom fields, but now I need a general text search available that both reference titles of products or sku...I can only get the text search to recognize titles.

Is there any documentation that you are following?

Is there a similar example that we can see?

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August 28, 2021 at 8:21 am #2154219

Jamal

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Hello and thank you for contacting Toolset Support.

Toolset does not have its own search mechanism, it relies on the default WordPress search. The default WordPress search uses only the title and the description. If you want to include custom fields(SKU) in the search, you must use the Relevanssi plugin. Check our article about it here https://toolset.com/course-lesson/searching-texts-in-custom-fields-with-toolset-and-relevanssi/

I hope this answers your question. Let me know if you have any further questions.

September 3, 2021 at 4:17 pm #2159971

kennethK-4

Perfect. This worked well. Was not aware that the search uses the default wp search database. Relevanssi did the trick.

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