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Joanne Achin
Courses Plus Student 1,138 PointsIs the text within the Widget area unsearchable?
Within my widget on my static page, I have an image named "bug.jpg" which is an attachment. I also have text beneath the image that says "Bug"
When I search for "bug", the default Wordpress search option finds neither. Search Everything plugin found the image (bug.jpg) because I have it searching attachments, but it didn't find the text beneath the image.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance.
2 Answers
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest TeacherHi,
No, widget content is not in search. It only searches content saved as a page, post or custom post type.
Part of the reason is that you can't easily pull in a widget to display on a search results page or link from a search results page to an actual widget in the same way you can link to a post or page.
I looked around a bit and didn't see a quick solution or plugin that would allow for this functionality.
Joanne Achin
Courses Plus Student 1,138 PointsThanks for your help.
I was told that a custom Google search would be able to index and display results from widgets (this wasn't verified, but I'll take his word on it), but because we aren't indexing this particular site with Google, that solution didn't help me.
What we ended up doing was using a third party open source crawler that we customized for our purposes. It works great.