How to enable search author name?

Hi TagDiv Team

When I search content with author name, there is no result for search. I think it is great feature if the web is multiauthor.
How to enable it?

Hi, nusagrunge
Non tagDIV team member and Junior Buckaroo Banzai regional team leader checking in!

This is a famous WordPress issue. We solved this a long time ago by simply putting something like this at bottom of each POST:

Article is © 2014 by Jane Smith and originally published on MyCoolSiteName.

This ensures the author’s NAME is actually in the post, but also helps with legal issues from content scraper bots who might capture post. Also helps with “print page” stuff as well as folks using the “read” function on iPad or iPhone to see only post text and nothing else.

This is nothing to do with the theme. If you ‘google’ this problem, there were some plugins prior to 3.2 that seemed to work, but no more that I know of.

Some people take the approach of using Google’s search engine for the site search in place of the WP search function. This would find all mentions of each author (in theory). There is a process to swap out local search for Google Search, and might be worth a try if you are playing with a brand new site.

Dear Chris

Thank you for your help.

Pardon me if I did not get your point. When I visit my site, I type the name author in the search box. The result is none. So I thought it can indexed the author name in the author box.

I will try your solution to put the author name in the posts.

Thank you, Chris.

Yes. The point was that WORDPRESS — which is the platform you are using — doesn’t support search by author name. Known bug or “feature.” Nothing to do with the theme(s). The author box is NOT part of the “post” — the search box typically only searches the POST meta, not external elements. The author box is not part of the post, nor is the author name. SO, the only thing WP returns in search result is what is in the title, POST or excerpt boxes, and likely tags and categories.

It’s one of those dumb things I’ve been waiting since 2006 for WP to address. Unfortunately we all must remember that WP is first and foremost a BLOG platform, with the presumption that the “author” is always the BLOG owner.

In fact, in the early days we actually created categories for authors vs using /author/.

SO, we’d have
/columns/janesmith/
/columns/jacksmith/

But then when Google got nutty about duplicate content, made sense just to switch to normal author index method – but then it didn’t help with search.

There ARE some multi-site plugins for better search, such as this one you might also try:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/global-site-search/

Dear Christopher

Thank you for your suggestion. Now I became to know WP more.
I hope in the future WP more concern about this issue.

By the way, I love your comments in this forum. Sometimes I learn from your comments if the tagdiv team not yet give the comment at some issue.

Once again, thank you.

@Christopher Great to learn with your comments!

When you search with the wordpress engine, it only look for content in the post, neither in categories nor in tags, at least in the tests I have done in my site using this theme.

Best regards!

Glad I’ve been able to help out 🙂