[Tammy Hart]

I hope that I’m just overlooking this, but I can’t seem to figure out how to let a user search the forums. The post types are set to exclude_from_search = true, and turning that off kind of works, but not really. What I get is a list of search results that use my page.php template, rather than the search.php template and thus outputs the entire topic including the reply form.

Ugh.

Furthermore, using “&post_type=topic” just returns the topic archive page, a list of all topics, not ones that contain the search string.

Search seems like a pretty “duh” feature, so what gives?

I love you JJJ! *big toothy grin*

[CiaranG]

Get this plugin: http://serverpress.com/products/search-bbpress/

(see also https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575 which is where I found it)

[Tammy Hart]

Yeah, doesn’t quite do what I need, although it helped me figure out how to undo exclude_from_search.

Thanks

[aaclayton]

Exact same problem. Have restored topics to be searchable, but searching for “&post_type=topic” just pulls the topic archive page.