Help Me Understand How To Get Jetpack Search to Search a Custom Post Type
I’ve got a Custom Post Type in WordPress. It’s called because it’s for documentation pages. This is for the CodePen 2.0 Docs . The Classic Docs are just “Pages” in WordPress, and that works fine, but I thought I’d do the correct WordPress thing and make a unique kind of content a Custom Post Type. This works quite nicely, except that they don’t turn up at all in Jetpack Search . I like Jetpack Search. It works well. It’s got a nice UI. You basically turn it on and forget about it. I put it on CSS-Tricks, and they still use it there. I put it on the Frontend Masters blog. It’s here on this blog. It’s a paid product, and I pay for it and use it because it’s good. I don’t begrudge core WordPress for not having better search, because raw MySQL search just isn’t very good. Jetpack Search uses Elasticsearch, a product better-suited for full-blown site search. That’s not a server requirement they could reasonably bake into core. But the fact that it just doesn’t index Custom Post Types is baffling to me. I suspect it’s just something I’m doing wrong. I can tell it doesn’t work with basic tests. For example, I’ve got a page called “Inline Block Processing” but if you search for “Inline Block Processing” it returns zero results . In the Customizing Jetpack Search area, I’m specifically telling Jetpack Search not to exclude “Docs” . That very much feels like it will include it . I’ve tried manually reindexing a couple of times, both from SSHing into Pressable and using WP-CLI to reindex, and from the “Manage Connections” page on WordPress.com. No dice. I contacted Jetpack Support, and they said: Jetpack Search handles Custom Post Types individually, so it may be that the slug for your post type isn’t yet included in the Jetpack Search index. We have a list of slugs we index here: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/blob/trunk/projects/packages/sync/src/modules/class-search.php#L691 If the slug isn’t on the list, please submit an issue here so that our dev team can add it: Where they sent me on GitHub was a bit confusing. It’s the end of a variable called , which doesn’t seem quite right, as that seems like, ya know, post metadata that shouldn’t be indexed, which isn’t what’s going on here. But it’s also right before a variable called private static $taxonomies_to_sync, which feels closer, but I know what a taxonomy is, and this isn’t that. A taxonomy is categories, tags, and stuff (you can make your own), but I’m not using any custom taxonomies here; I’m using a Custom Post Type. They directed me to open a GitHub Issue, so I did that . But it’s sat untouched for a month. I just need to know whether Jetpack Search can handle Custom Post Types. If it does, what am I doing wrong to make it not work? If it can’t, fine, I just wanna know so I can figure out some other way to handle this. Unsearchable docs are not tenable.
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