I can’t find a search box activation option or short code for a search box. I have activated my theme’s own search function and it doesn’t pick up on words from within the forums pages. Do you have a forum search option?

Thank you for your time.

Take care,
Kari

[@karilistermanyahoocom Participant 7 years, 6 months ago]

Disregard. The bbpress search widget is searching the forums so I disabled the normal search bar. This topic can be closed. Thank you!!

[@robin-w Moderator 7 years, 6 months ago]

no problem !

[@packzap Participant 7 years ago]

I am trying the bbPress widgets “search” and “extended search”. Neither returns adequate results when entering a search term. Usually the results are blank (when I have seen the searched for text on my site).

Sometimes when re-entering the query on the blank search results page, I get a “500 Internal Server Error” page coming up after clicking “search”. I know this worked correctly in the past. What are some good methods to troubleshoot?

[@nehul-patel Participant 6 years, 12 months ago]

Forum search not working

[@robin-w Moderator 6 years, 12 months ago]

Forum search not working

ok, if you need help, you’ll need to put a bit more than this.

Suggest you

1. work through this link first

Before Posting

2. if you still have an issue, tell us exactly what is not working ie I type x and y happens