Title: Search problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search problems

 *  [mayurpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayurpatel/)
 * (@mayurpatel)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/)
 * If you look at my blog at [http://mayurpatel.org](http://mayurpatel.org) you’ll
   see that I have my version of “asides” set up (called Extra! Extra!). This basically
   uses the miniposts plugin to filter out a category during the loop to prevent
   it from appearing on the main page. Well, the problem I have recently discovered
   is that the native search function of WP only searches what seems to be “in the
   loop” so to speak. Thus, only my main posts are searched through the search form
   and all posts in my miniposts are ignored.
 * I have installed the search everything plugin but that isn’t helping. Is there
   any solution anyone is aware of?

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 *  [masquerade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masquerade/)
 * (@masquerade)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/#post-244308)
 * Copy index.php to search.php and change it to a normal loop in your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [mayurpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayurpatel/)
 * (@mayurpatel)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/#post-244312)
 * Hmm, I don’t quite understand, I never altered by search.php when I filtered 
   out the category in index.php. What am I missing here?
 *  [masquerade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/masquerade/)
 * (@masquerade)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/#post-244316)
 * Copy index.php to search.php, which probably doesn’t exist in your theme. Then
   change the loop in search.php to a normal loop that doesn’t ignore categories
   like the loop in your index does.
 *  Thread Starter [mayurpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayurpatel/)
 * (@mayurpatel)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/#post-244516)
 * Search.php does exist, it has a normal loop.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [mayurpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayurpatel/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems/#post-244516)
 * Status: not resolved

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