Something is wrong with search on my site

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  thejasonwatts · Member · May 25, 2018 at 3:37 pm

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  Hi,

  The search function on my site doesn’t work properly. It finds certain things, but not everything.

  As an example, it won’t find anything on my “Music” page.

  I have a feeling that some of the custom CSS I’ve added may be interfering, but I’m not certain about that because I’m not sure when this issue arose.

  Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out with this!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2018 at 9:50 pm

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  This is what I find https://jasonwatts.net/?s=music

  Search widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/search-widget/

  The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed. https://en.search.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · May 26, 2018 at 9:53 pm

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  You may want to assign categories to posts and provide a categories widget.

  Categories https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  Categories widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/

  You may want to assign tags https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/ to posts and provide a tag cloud widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tag-cloud-widget/

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  thejasonwatts · Member · May 27, 2018 at 12:34 am

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  Hi, timethief!

  Thank you for the assistance!

  I may have stated the problem incorrectly.

  I do use categories. In fact, everything I’ve posted is in a category.

  I’m try to clarify.

  For example, this is my Music “category” page: https://jasonwatts.net/category/music/

  On that page, there are posts for music projects I’ve worked on, such as The Seers: New World Order. That title is entered as text, and yet when I search for “The Seers,” it finds nothing.

  The same is true for other posts contained in the Music category page.

  I hope that helps explain the problem better.

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  thejasonwatts · Member · May 28, 2018 at 6:38 pm

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  Anyone else have any ideas what’s going on? I’ve tried everything I can think of, but nothing in my Music category page can be found via the search creature.

  Thanks!

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  thejasonwatts · Member · May 28, 2018 at 6:38 pm

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  *search feature. 😂