[Resolved] Search does not include custum fields

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[Touraj]

I am trying to: include some custom fields in search results

Link to a page where the issue can be seen: Any page (Search using the magnifier)

I expected to see: author name to have results

Instead, I got: no results

The suggested search plugin is actived and set up but the settings for toolset is now empty.

[Nigel]

Hi there

Your Relevanssi settings are indexing the post author name, but I suspect you mean the taxonomy imho_author, is that what you want included in the search.

You are not indexing that taxonomy, and hence it is not included in the search.

[Touraj]

Thank you for your reply.

imho_author has been added to the index and re-indexed. Still no luck.

[Touraj]

Also, hidden link is blank

[Nigel]

I can confirm on the front-end that searching for the author doesn't work.

I went to the Relevanssi settings to confirm them and re-built the index.

I noticed the warning shown in the screenshot. Relevanssi itself is warning that it might not work correctly because your server is missing the common mbstring PHP module.

I suggest you contact your host and have it activated, it is a common module that is also required for Toolset.

I suspect that you will find PHP notices in your debug logs because of this.

I couldn't see why the Toolset settings page was blank. I temporarily de-activated the plugins you use to customise the admin pages but that didn't help.

I suggest you first look in debug.log to see if there are any related messages.

If you haven't already, turn on the debug log by editing your wp-config.php file and change the line with WP_DEBUG like so:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_LOG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', false);

That will create a debug.log file in your wp-content directory which you can examine in any text editor. Try visiting Toolset > Settings and then inspect the log.