Search not including Cornerstone Pages

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#1

The search tool only seems to be cataloging post pages and testimonials but not Cornerstone Page content.

How can I get the site to index the entire site for searching?

http://www.lydonhosting.com/0118-oculus/

Thanks!

#2

Hey There,

Thanks for writing in!

Excerpts were dynamically generated from the very first 55 words of the post by default. When the post content is wrapped with a shortcode like the Cornerstone or VC formatting shortcodes, no excerpts will be generated. To resolve this issue, you must insert a manual excerpts instead. Manual Excerpts are optional hand-crafted summaries of your content that can be used in your theme. Learn more about manual excerpts.

Please check out this thread for reference: https://theme.co/apex/forum/t/post-excerpt-are-not-being-pulled-through-cornerstone-and-wpbakery-page-builder/22132

Hope this helps.

#3

Thanks. Are the excerpts limited to the 55 words as well?

#4

Hi,

You can adjust it under Appearance > Customize > Blog > Content > Excerpt Length

Thanks

#5

Great. Thanks for your help. One last question regarding excerpts. I don’t imagine it’s possible, but it doesn’t hurt to ask:

We are already using excerpts on our posts to define “teaser” copy for the article. That teaser copy is shown within our home page Grid. The teaser copy isn’t always going to be thorough enough for Search purposes. Is there a way to “hide” copy in an excerpt that wouldn’t show in the “teaser” but would be picked up by the search function?

It’s a long shot, I know, but I’m hoping I could insert some HTML or inline styling within the Excerpt to distinguish between those two levels of text.

Thanks again for your help.

#6

Hi there,

You can add HTML code like this but I am not sure honestly if it will work:

<p>The excerpt text which should be visible</p>
<p style="display: none;">The excerpt text which is not visible and is a helper for the searching function</p>

Honestly, I am not sure if that will work or not, but if you want to do that the code above is the way to go.

Thank you.

#7

I found several topics, including this one, which seems to indicate the issue with X-Theme Search I’m having but the reply is always regarding the excerpts under search results instead.

The problem is that content in V2 text elements are not found as relevant search results. Of my two sites, I converted one to use V2 text elements and now those pages only return results matching the content of the headers. My other website returns search results for any words within classic text elements.

Taking the OP as an example, this search should show the ‘How We Do It’ page as a result but it is not found because it is in V2 Text element. Had they used Classic Text Element, the page would be found.
http://www.lydonhosting.com/0118-oculus/?s=phases should return http://www.lydonhosting.com/0118-oculus/services-how-we-do-it/

If there a way to make content of V2 text elements return in search results or should I convert back to classic text elements?

#8

Hey There,

Thanks for updating this thread. The default WordPress search cannot detect texts inside a shortcode or a v2 elements. You may need to use a 3rd party plugin that will enhance the search capability of WordPress. You may check out the plugins repository for these plugins.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/better+search/

Hope this helps.

#9

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