Media Library Search Not Working

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    shcompanies · Member ·

    When I go to my media library and type a keyword in the search bar, the screen blinks as if it’s going to show me the results, but then it just shows all of my media library as if I didn’t search at all. It’s still in chronological order by upload date.

    I search words I know are in file names. I’ll search words that are common, such as “icon” and it still shows all of my media. I’ll search words I know without a doubt are not in any media files, such as “toilet,” and still, it shows all of my media library.

    This has been happening for probably the better part of a year or two. To find certain files, I have to remember when they were uploaded and use the date dropdown to find all files uploaded within that month.

    I’m just wondering if there is a way to fix this? In the past 2 years, my website has changed themes, but within both themes, all plugins have been disabled, I tried the default theme. Still no fix. Everything is up to date (wordpress, theme and plugins). This is just a frustrating issue.

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but using the open source WordPress.org software at another hosting provider. We cannot help with this in the WordPress.com forums.

    Please post in the self-hosted WordPress forums instead for help:

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums

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