Title: Admin Search returns all posts
Last modified: October 4, 2016

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# Admin Search returns all posts

 *  [karlpietsch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlpietsch/)
 * (@karlpietsch)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-returns-all-posts/)
 * In version 2.1.1, admin search always returns all posts
 * function ep_admin_integrate sets ‘ep_integrate’ to true
    however in class-ep-
   api format_args function if ‘ep_integrate’ is set then the search term is never
   integrated into the elasitcsearch query on line 1474
 *     ```
       if ( ! empty( $args['s'] ) && empty( $args['ep_match_all'] ) && empty( $args['ep_integrate'] ) ) {
       			$query['bool']['should'][2]['multi_match']['query'] = $args['s'];
       			$query['bool']['should'][1]['multi_match']['query'] = $args['s'];
       			$query['bool']['should'][0]['multi_match']['query'] = $args['s'];
       			$formatted_args['query'] = $query;
       		} else if ( ! empty( $args['ep_match_all'] ) || ! empty( $args['ep_integrate'] ) ) {
       			$formatted_args['query']['match_all'] = array();
       		}
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [karlpietsch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlpietsch/)
 * (@karlpietsch)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-returns-all-posts/#post-8249345)
 * maybe line 1474 should be something like
 * `if ( ! empty( $args['s'] ) && empty( $args['ep_match_all'] ) ) {`
 * seems to work

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