Title: Initial Index Problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Initial Index Problem

 *  Resolved [fudgemonday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fudgemonday/)
 * (@fudgemonday)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-index-problem/)
 * First-up, thanks for developing what appears to be a great plugin for AWS Cloud
   Search. We’re trying to get set-up so that we can evaluate, but we’re having 
   some issues getting our content indexed.
 * 1) We have a wordpress site with 40,000 posts which we would like to search over.
   After installing and activating the plugin the liftsearch admin page found 1,101
   documents to sync; pages, posts, attachments. We synced them and can successfully
   search over them. However, there are ~100,000 posts, pages, attachments, so we’re
   missing ~99,000 which do not appear in the queue. We’ve tried manually updating
   a post to trigger it to get into the queue, but that had limited success – we
   managed to get 1 additional post in the index by doing that way, but attempts
   for other posts haven’t worked. Our posts go back over 10 years and we’re wondering
   if the publish date has any effect on what is queued to index? Also, what about
   the volume of posts we’re trying to index; would that be an issue? How can we
   force all of our posts to get into the queue to be synced?
 * 2) For our search we just want to search over our ‘Posts’ (related post meta,
   categories and tags). So we restricted the post types to just “post” as per the
   documentation (in our functions.php):
 *     ```
       add_filter('lift_indexed_post_types', function( $post_types ){
           $post_types[] = 'post';
           return $post_types;
       });
       ```
   
 * This doesn’t appear to have any effect on (1) the queue of documents to be synced(
   if we add a new ‘Page’ we still see it in the queue) (2) the front-end search
   still picks-up ‘Pages’ in the results. Do we have to use the ‘lift_loop();’ and/
   or ‘lift_search_form();’ functions in combination with the ‘lift_indexed_post_types’
   filter to get the front-end search to honour the post types?
 * Any insight/help would be greatly appreciated. Lift Search looks like a great
   way to get a good search working on WordPress and we’re hopeful this is the right
   solution for our needs.
 * Thanks in advance for your assistance.
 * – Richard
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lift-search/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/lift-search/)

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 *  Plugin Author [prettyboymp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prettyboymp/)
 * (@prettyboymp)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-index-problem/#post-3940257)
 * 1) Can you check your error_logs to see if there is any error output? The sync
   runs via wp_cron, so a fatal error could be causing the failure.
 * 2) If you only want posts to be searched, the filter should return an array with
   only ‘post’ in it. For example:
 *     ```
       add_filter('lift_indexed_post_types', function( $post_types ){
           return array('post');
       });
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Author [Kevin Langley Jr.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kevinlangleyjr/)
 * (@kevinlangleyjr)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-index-problem/#post-3940261)
 * @fudgemonkey, I’d like to help you resolve this issue, but its just hard to do
   so without more information. Is there any way you can check you error logs to
   see if there is something that might help track down the issue?
 *  Thread Starter [fudgemonday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fudgemonday/)
 * (@fudgemonday)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-index-problem/#post-3940270)
 * Hi, thanks for the replies. Unfortunately there was a deadline for the project
   and we tried our best to get it working, but in-the-end we had to look for another
   solution for search. We went with swiftype.

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 * Last reply from: [fudgemonday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fudgemonday/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/initial-index-problem/#post-3940270)
 * Status: resolved