Add menu items > Pages > search tab only returns ten results, max

  • I’m trying to set up menu items on a wordpress-hosted medical site that has almost 500 pages. The only way to find the page I want to make a link to (other than spending hours scrolling through the many pages of the View All tab) is to use the Search tab.

    There are two *major* problems with this:

    1. The search seems to go through the entire page content, not just the page titles. So a search for “Cancer” returns all the pages that mention cancer, whether or not the page has “Cancer” in the title. If I put in the full page title, the results include all pages that have links to that page in their content.

    But what makes this much, much worse is:

    2. The page search dialog only returns a maximum of ten results. So if the page I want is the eleventh page in the results, I’m never going to find it.

    So my question is: is there any way to change these two characteristics/parameters? If there isn’t, they would seem to be major design errors.

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  • Hey,

    I found this snippet on the WordPress stackexchange which seems to address this problem.

    Thread Starter peterwardleyrepen

    (@peterwardleyrepen)

    Thanks for trying, James – unfortunately I don’t get to edit code as our site is WordPress-hosted. I tried some of the SE solutions on my local copy, but that functionality seems to have changed in the current version of WordPress. I couldn’t find the lines they were referring to. Oh well.

    This is really irritating. Confirms my long-held belief that WordPress is a great blogging system and a lousy CMS.

    Did you try the top answer, this one?

    I just gave it a spin on my local environment and it works perfectly.

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