Title: Search Function
Last modified: February 9, 2021

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# Search Function

 *  Resolved [daisydigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisydigital/)
 * (@daisydigital)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-79/)
 * Hi,
 * Our search function doesn’t seem to work for categories, for example if I type
   hairdresser it doesn’t seem to pull up the hair dressers. It will if I type hair(
   as it picks up the text in the listing that says “hair” in the title)… this seems
   like a pretty important feature that it can read part of the category too in 
   the search function.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsearch-function-79%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Shahadat Hossain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/5h4h4d4t/)
 * (@5h4h4d4t)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-79/#post-14025332)
 * Hello [@daisydigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisydigital/)
 * Thank you for reaching out.
 * The text field on the search home only looks through the listing titles on your
   site. To enable category based searching, please enable the following option:
   [https://prnt.sc/yumho0](https://prnt.sc/yumho0)
 * Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [daisydigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisydigital/)
 * (@daisydigital)
 * [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-79/#post-14026862)
 * Hi, thank you, we have that, but it is only a dropdown menu… this seems like 
   an important function to have that is searches everything on the listing to me

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 * Last reply from: [daisydigital](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisydigital/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-79/#post-14026862)
 * Status: resolved