Search returning zero results, blog results or case sensitive results.

[cestrian77]

Steps to Reproduce

1. Carry out keyword search in WP Job Manager

What I Expected

Job results matching the keyword search

What Happened Instead

I'm getting mixed results, depending on the site/installation I try this with. On some sites I'm getting zero results. On others, I'm getting blog results returned. On some I'm seeing the search only working with case sensitive queries.

WordPress / WP Job Manager Version

4.9.6

Browser / OS Version

Windows 10 Pro / Google Chrome 66.0.3359.181

Screenshot / Video

This is what I see if I search for "science" - all lowercase.

Then if I search for "Science" with a capital 'S'... I get results returned.

Context / Source

[cestrian77]

If I leave the page open, I subsequently get a POST error message in the Console that looks like:

jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:4 POST https://www.DOMAIN.co.uk/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php 0 ()
send @ jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:4
ajax @ jquery.js?ver=1.12.4:4
call_ajax @ job_count_ajax.js?ver=4.9.6:21

Not sure if this helps?

[cestrian77]

And an admin-ajax.php (failed) error message too:

[richardmtl]

Hi! GitHub Issues is for reporting core WPJM bugs and feature requests. For support and feature requests for our extensions, please visit https://wpjobmanager.com/support. For support for the core plugin, post in the forum: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-job-manager/

As a first step to troubleshooting this, though, I'd suggest switching to a default theme like Twenty Seventeen, to see if your theme is getting in the way.

[cestrian77]

Thanks. But I've switched to a default theme Twenty Seventeen, deactivated all plugins apart from WP Job Manager and I'm still seeing the weird search behaviour - which is why I thought it was a bug that needed reporting. Please see: https://www.rpmtech.co.uk/jobs/ - and try searching for "Recruitment" vs "recruitment".

[richardmtl]

@cestrian77 We consider a bug to usually be something wrong with the code; until we've determined that this is the case, let's take this to the forum or our support form (if you have a paid add-on), shall we? Thanks!

[cestrian77]

Panic over! I've identified that we had some custom script in our child theme's functions.php aimed at narrowing search to posts only (ie excluding pages). This used to work, but I guess a recent update has now led to it conflicting. Removing the code instantly fixes the issue.

[richardmtl]

Thanks for letting me know! For future cross-referencing, you opened this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-job-manager-search-not-working-properly/