Title: Process Shortcodes   Search
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Process Shortcodes Search

 *  [HM](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcm/)
 * (@hcm)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-shortcodes-search/)
 * I use shortcodes and my own plugin to add LyricWiki lyrics to a web site. Is 
   there a filter to process shortcodes so that the page contents are included in
   the built-in WP search? Or do I have to use something like a custom Google search
   which indexes the site after all of the php, html, etc has been processed?
 * For example, the body of one of my pages is only `[lyricwiki artist="Some Artist"
   song="Some Song"]`
    The page visitor sees a full page lyrics. If they use the
   built-in WP search for some of words in the lyrics they will get 0 results because
   in the database all that’s displayed is the shortcode.

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