Title: Search doesn’t return imported posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search doesn’t return imported posts

 *  [JoeyDay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeyday/)
 * (@joeyday)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/)
 * I recently combined two blogs into one by exporting and importing the posts from
   one blog into the other. Now, when I search for posts that were imported, they
   fail to show up in the results. This happens when I search for words in the title
   or the body.
 * To reproduce this bug:
    1. Go to the blog at [joeyday.com](http://www.joeyday.com).
    2. Click “Archive” across the top to get the search box.
    3. Search for “english” and observe that this post, [English Standard Version](http://www.joeyday.com/2006/01/03/english-standard-version),
       doesn’t appear in the search results.
    4. Search for “ministry” and observe that this post, [Is Paid Ministry Unbiblical?](http://www.joeyday.com/2005/06/03/is-paid-ministry-unbiblical),
       doesn’t appear in the search results.
 * Any ideas? Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [JoeyDay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeyday/)
 * (@joeyday)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519084)
 * *bump*
 * Anybody?
 *  [aychseven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aychseven/)
 * (@aychseven)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519288)
 * I have the same problem. All the old posts are there, but I can only search through
   posts i’ve made since i switched to wordpress.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519289)
 * There may be some cross messing with the post ids. It’s next to impossible to
   successfully munge two wordpress (for instance) blogs, because you’ll have the
   same post ids even though the post slugs etc. are different. Which probably will
   screw up a number of things, not just searching.
 *  Thread Starter [JoeyDay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeyday/)
 * (@joeyday)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519290)
 * No, that can’t be the case here. The posts were exported to and imported from
   the WordPress-native WXR format, which is an XML file that doesn’t even contain
   any of the original post IDs. When the posts are imported, they get unique post
   IDs on the new blog as if they were simply new (backdated) posts.
 * I’m sure this problem has more to do with search index caching. For instance,
   new posts that are posted the normal way get cached to the search index, but 
   new posts that are added via an import from a WXR file are not cached to the 
   search index. I can see how search indexing could be very easy to overlook when
   designing and implementing an import process as complicated as WordPress’s must
   be.
 * If there were simply a way to clear the search index cache and force the whole
   blog to re-index itself, that would probably solve the problem.
 *  [tommyill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommyill/)
 * (@tommyill)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519301)
 * I also need to find out how to re-index site for search. Since upgrading to 2.1
   only new posts are coming up in search for me.
 *  [tommyill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tommyill/)
 * (@tommyill)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519306)
 * I installed the SEM Search Reloaded plugin, and it apparently reindexed the site.
   
   [http://www.semiologic.com/software/search-reloaded/](http://www.semiologic.com/software/search-reloaded/)
 *  [aychseven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aychseven/)
 * (@aychseven)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519319)
 * good find! with this plugin active, the search works like it should. thanks!
 *  [jlencion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlencion/)
 * (@jlencion)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-return-imported-posts/#post-519425)
 * Hooray! This fixed all of my problems as well. 😀

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