Title: Search function doesn’t work
Last modified: July 8, 2025

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# Search function doesn’t work

 *  Resolved [emilyalehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilyalehman/)
 * (@emilyalehman)
 * [10 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/)
 * Hi, when I click “category” or “author” or try the search function and then click“
   search,” I get bounced back to my own homepage. Is there a simple way to fix 
   this?

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 *  Plugin Author [Hossni Mubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mhmrajib/)
 * (@mhmrajib)
 * [10 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/#post-18548238)
 * Hello [@emilyalehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilyalehman/) 
   Thank
   you for your query.If your gallery page is not the home page then you need to
   specify the gallery page slug in the general settings section.Like if you gallery
   url is: example.com/librarythen you need to set library as the gallery page slug
   in the general settings page.Let me know if that works for you.
 *  Thread Starter [emilyalehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilyalehman/)
 * (@emilyalehman)
 * [10 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/#post-18549929)
 * Hello [@mhmrajib](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mhmrajib/), thank you so
   much for the quick response. I set the gallery page slug to resources since the
   page slug where I have the gallery shortcode is resources. This did not work.
   Is there anything else I can try?
 * I am working in a development site where there is a suffix to all my URLs (.flywheelsites.
   com) in case that might be making a difference. Let me know, thank you again.
 *  Plugin Author [Hossni Mubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mhmrajib/)
 * (@mhmrajib)
 * [10 months, 2 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/#post-18551207)
 * Hello [@emilyalehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilyalehman/) 
   This
   is kinda tough to identify the actual issue.We suggest you knock our live chat
   or write us via our website contact page.
 *  Plugin Author [Hossni Mubarak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mhmrajib/)
 * (@mhmrajib)
 * [10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/#post-18577278)
 * Hello [@emilyalehman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emilyalehman/) 
   We 
   haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved–
   if you have any further questions, you can reopen it again if you need be.

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 * Last activity: [10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-doesnt-work-3/#post-18577278)
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