Changes to post_title or post_content are not indexed for search

  • Resolved Nasif

    (@nasifrr)


    9 months ago

    Hello, I’ve been working with the plugin to make sure it’s functionalities are in line with my own developments. In particular, when making sure that the multilingual search worked, I realized that changes to the post content or title are not taken into account for searches.

    In other words: if I create a post and translate it, both the translated title and content are indexed in the ‘wp_trp_original_meta’ table as expected. However, if I edit my post to change the title or content and translate it again, then these new translations are not indexed and nothing is changed in the ‘wp_trp_original_meta’. So if I search any string that is part of that new translation, the post will not be found.

    Is there something that can be done to make sure these changes are correctly indexed in the ‘wp_trp_original_meta’ table?

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  • Plugin Support Alex

    (@alexcozmoslabs)

    Hi,

    SEO translation is a pro feature of TranslatePress. For any issue related to it, you are encouraged to contact us directly on our website: https://translatepress.com/support/. WordPress forum’s guidelines prohibit topics about paid features.

    Howevwer, Google probably need some time (one-two weeks) to index the new information and crawling the translations.

    Thread Starter Nasif

    (@nasifrr)

    Hello!

    Sorry I think I was not very clear. I did not mean google search, I meant the internal wordpress site search. It seems to work well in both the original and translated language. Except when I make a change to the title or content. Then, it just never updates your trp original meta database with the change.

    In other words, if the translated title is “AAAA”, and I later change the original language post title and translate it again, now to “BBBB”, when I search my site in the 2nd language and search for BBBB, the post does not show up. If I search AAAA it does. So it keeps the old title for the search, not the new.

    Just to reiterate, it has nothing to do with SEO or google search. I have already read through your whole search article but I’m just using the normal wordpress search feature, no other plugins or anything, so this makes me think it may be a bug.

    Thank you!

    • This reply was modified 9 months ago by Nasif.
    Plugin Support Alex

    (@alexcozmoslabs)

    For the search to work on a specific post in a specific language, translation of that post content and title in that same language must exist prior to searching. So basically, if you edit the title, create another string that should also be visited in the additional languages in order to be taken into account. If automatic translation is active, a post must be visited at least once in that specific language in order to get indexed by TP.

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