Hi,
We use the Newspaper theme for a small site that has multiple authors. However, when I type an author’s name in the search box, it gives no result. Any idea why? Is the author field not included in the search? Have even tried using the wpsolr plugin – same result with or without it i.e. no search results when search term is an author’s name. FYI, we’re using the Co-Authors Plus plugin and we’re on nginx.
Hello,
Unfortunately the search will not retrieve authors. We do not change the default functionality of the WordPress search. On a wp default theme, the search will still not be able to retrieve authors as WP does not have this functionality. You can try a few plugins for extended search results but I cannot recommend any as we have not tested advanced search plugins.
Thanks.
Thanks for the quick reply Bogdan. Was wondering if there was some way it could be done by writing a new function within functions.php. What I’m looking at, is for the search results to display posts by the searched for author/user in addition of course to the results that would normally be displayed i.e if that author’s name was part of the post body.
Hi,
Easiest way to use a plugin that has the functionality you need for the search, maybe try some of these
– http://www.wpbeginner.com/showcase/12-wordpress-search-plugins-to-improve-your-site-search/
There could be code solutions if you would like to try
– https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32958075/how-to-include-authors-users-in-the-results-for-the-native-wordpress-search
Thanks
