BREAKING NEWS? HOW ABOUT A BROKEN WORDPRESS SEARCH ENGINE? – MARILYN ARMSTRONG

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Not exactly luminescent. More like the exact opposite.  

If you are on your dashboard and you go to Reader (I don’t know what dashboard you are using because they keep “fixing it” and this latest fix has REALLY fixed it but good). Open Reader, go down to “Search” and type in your name. See what you get. If you are lucky, you will see most or all of your posts including recent posts.

If you are me, you will find nothing — not the name of your site or your name or any post from your site at all. Almost everyone else can find at least their older posts. In my case, I effectively do not exist in the WordPress search engine.

Why is this such a big deal? Because the search engine — otherwise known as “the database” — is how WordPress hangs together. It’s the core information about…

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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12 Responses to BREAKING NEWS? HOW ABOUT A BROKEN WORDPRESS SEARCH ENGINE? – MARILYN ARMSTRONG

  1. We all need to pass this along. I think a lot of people do not yet realize were the problem is. This is affecting, as far as I can tell at this point … absolutely EVERY blogger on WordPress.

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:

      It definitely needs sorting. The last big problem, when they ‘lost’ the reblog button, was because they had deleted a bunch of old code and the reblog button with it. What’s betting this is part of that too….

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  2. Peter B. Giblett's avatar Peter B. Giblett says:

    Earlier versions of WordPress had this problem. I have had no such problems since release 4 of the product. I wonder if it is an implementation problem with your host.

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  3. I don’t know what the problem is that Marilyn has encountered, but searching for her worked fine for me. (See my comment at her original post.)

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  4. There’s enough chaos in my world, now this. I’m worried about the major change coming: Gutenberg. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5DLIC9_LU8)
    This from a recent WP Camp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOY3ZUO6P0k&feature=youtu.be)
    Hang on – it’s going to be a bumpy ride…

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