WP Site Search doesn't find products in the store.

[mkintner]

How can I get the search to find product in the store? If I search the site it should be able to show the products that contain that search.

How can I do this?

Also if the search doesn’t work then does this mean search engines can’t see the products as well and not index this information?

[admin]

WordPress’s default search only searches your WP Posts, pages, categories database. That has got no relation to how real search engines (example, Google, Bing) index your site content. Search engines like Google will index exactly what you see in the browser when you visit your site.

For example, if you search any of the products offered by Tips and Tricks HQ in Google you will see that it shows up in the search engine result (regardless of What the default WordPress site search does).

With that said, WP eStore has shortcodes that you can place on a page, post or sidebar to allow your users to search your products database. Please check the shortcode list of the extra Shortcodes plugin:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/ecommerce/wp-estore-shortcodes-and-functions-reference-460

Similar post where another user asked a similar question:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/adding-search-to-products-in-store

[headmonk]

Is there a way I can feed the product data to the Google Site Search? That would be much more elegant.

thanks in advance

[admin]

You mean the Google product search (also known as Google base feed)?

[headmonk]

I’ve put a Google search box on my site. You can pay for this and it’s super fast. They call it Google Site Search. I would love to have this be the only search box on the site but want to have the product information show up. Is there some way to put this in a sitemap.xml file or something like that?

[admin]

You can’t control what result Google shows in their “Site Search” result. Google will crawl your web pages and show results based on *whatever they think* is appropriate.

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