Title: Search doesn’t work when Redirection plugin is active
Last modified: September 9, 2019

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# Search doesn’t work when Redirection plugin is active

 *  Resolved [webby1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webby1973/)
 * (@webby1973)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m using this useful pluging to redirect the home page to a special post type
   created with a Themify theme, so I needed to add a redirection because AFAIK 
   WordPress doesn’t allow the home page to be a post type (article).
    In the WordPress
   settings the home page is set to a specific page.
 * I had to use the pass-through option like this:
    – redirection from that page
   to the post type url. Options: – start url: / – query parameters: ignore – match:
   URL only; – when matched: pass-through; – destination url: /folder/custom-post-
   type-url/ – group: redirections
 * The redirection works, but what is not working at all now is the search function
   of the website, whatever I look for I get an 404 error! If I deactivate the plugin
   the search does work.
    What can cause this odd result?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11913488)
 * Yes, you can’t do that passthrough on the home page and have search working. 
   You’ll need to find another way of doing what you want.
 *  Thread Starter [webby1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webby1973/)
 * (@webby1973)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914625)
 * [@johnny5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) Hello John, thank you
   for confirming the issue.
    Do you have any suggestion, or can you please explain
   to me the reason why this kind of redirection break the search function?
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914643)
 * The passthrough feature is not intended to pass through functionality, only the
   page itself. You are trying to do something for which it is not designed, and
   so things will stop working. Sorry, the only suggestion I have is to try another
   way of achieving your aim.
 *  Thread Starter [webby1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webby1973/)
 * (@webby1973)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914666)
 * [@johnny5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) OK, but why does it 
   break the search on the whole website? The redirection is set for the home page
   only.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914685)
 * Ok, you didn’t mention whole website before. I imagine it’s because the search
   occurs from the home page, and you’ve changed that, so it doesn’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [webby1973](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webby1973/)
 * (@webby1973)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914737)
 * [@johnny5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) The search doesn’t work
   anywhere on the website, I mean whatever page you’re searching from the result
   is a 404.
 *  Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * (@johnny5)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914745)
 * Sure, and the search function is sent to the home page, which you have modified.
   It doesn’t matter which page you start from. If it is causing a problem with 
   the search then you should disable the passthrough.

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 * Last reply from: [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesnt-work-when-redirection-plugin-is-active/#post-11914745)
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