Hi all,
I'm quite a newb when it comes to movable type and I'm running into a problem. Search results always show the "Instructions" content instead of any search results or even no search results conten.
I've read that's because the search query could be wrong but I don't see any problems. I've compared search query strings to other movable type sites and it's the same. Also, if I do a search in the system admin section, I do get results there.
I've tried to search by 'tag' and by 'search'.
And something else that could be related, I also have the TagApps 2.0 plugin installed. I've tried disabling that but have the same problem. And when it is enabled, I get a build error with that plugin when searching through it. Something tells me they're both related to some common search problem but I'm not sure what.
Do I possibly need to rebuild the entire site in order for search to work properly?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Mark
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
Hi Mark -
In order to perform a search, the query has to pass a parameter. For instance, if you run a search here, you will see that the URL you end up with has a parameter named (oddly enough) "search". So it will say something like search=foo (if you are searching for foo).
If you don't pass that search parameter, then you won't get a result. If you've changed your templates so that you deleted the parameter, or renamed it because you thought it was redundant, or implemented Fast Search, then something along those lines could be the problem.