Title: [Plugin: Search Unleashed] Shortcode Search
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Search Unleashed] Shortcode Search

 *  [phil.hoffmann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philhoffmann/)
 * (@philhoffmann)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-unleashed-shortcode-search/)
 * I have many polls inside my posts that use shortcode (ie: [poll id=”1″]. I need
   the information in these polls to pop up in a search, so if the question reads“
   what is your favorite color” and guests type “color” in a search, the correct
   post will pop-up. I installed search unleashed thinking this would work, but 
   it is not. Is there something I need to do so the metadata inside the shortcode
   is recognized? Thanks.

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 *  [MistahWrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistahwrite/)
 * (@mistahwrite)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-unleashed-shortcode-search/#post-1970769)
 * I agree that processing the contents of the short code in a search would be nice.
   Currently, it does not do this. I am not familiar with all of the processing 
   ramifications of implementing a feature like this.
 * I have a plugin I made that makes heavy use of short codes for generating certain
   parts of certain pages, and I have hacked in the do_shortcode() function on some
   of WP E-Commerce’s code to get my short code to work as a product. Maybe something
   could easily be implemented for the search as well?

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 * Last reply from: [MistahWrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mistahwrite/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-unleashed-shortcode-search/#post-1970769)
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