search widget not working correctly
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on my site, when I search aaron, I know there are more than 2 results. but only box appears. secondly, the search only shows a burgundy box and not the image? I used captions, and that is what is being searched. what I am I doing wrong?
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Hi there,
The Search widget/ block will return results from the titles and the bodies of your posts and pages, and from media titles, alt text, file names, and single image captions. When I search for “Aaron” on your site (search box in the footer) I am taken to this page: https://etnasupply45529322.wordpress.com/?s=aaron
The burgundy rectangle is a link to your “Flint” page (if you set a featured image it will show instead of the colored box) and I do see that there are two “Aaron” images on that page if I visit it. Do you have another page that the word “Aaron” appears on, but is not showing? or is the Flint page the only page where those would appear?
Please note that the way that WordPress search results work is not exactly the same as you would find by using a search engine like Google. i.e. when we find a matching term, we show a link to the page that it can be found on. We do not show the images themselves using our built in search, which is intended for finding pages and posts (matching the search term) but not for finding media
If you are looking for advanced search functionality you may want to consider our “Jetpack Search” offering here: https://wordpress.com/support/jetpack-search/
It is not free, but would provide more detailed search results. You are welcome to try it for 30 days and cancel/refund if you find it is not a fit for what you need.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
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thank you. no, there are only 2 aarons. but I am certain that the bosses will want to see images of the aarons.
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