How to rebuild search results?

  • I have a WP site with many categories and each post has a few tags each. When I use the Search field of the site, it shows results that include tags (which is perfect).

    I mis-tagged a post. So for example, lets say Post1 had the tag “red”, search results would show that post for a search of the word “red”. Then I discovered this was wrong, removed the tag “red” from that post and instead added “blue”. Now when I search for “red” this post still shows up in the results. When I search for “blue” it’s not showing up.

    Same problem exists when viewing directly by tag URL. eg:
    Still appearing under: https://www.example.com/tag/red/
    Not appearing under: https://www.example.com/tag/blue/

    Could someone provide some insight as to why this is? I cleared all caches (server & autoptimize).

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by LilGames. Reason: clarity
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  • Hi,

    Have you tried to deactivate all the plugins and clear the cache again? A plugin like Yoast SEO, for example, might be keeping things the same. Also, activating a default theme like Twenty Seventeen before clearing the cache would be a good idea. You need to eliminate everything that’s not from WordPress by default before checking things closer.

    Thread Starter LilGames

    (@lilgames)

    No I did not deactivate plugins or change theme. Doing these things on a live site is uhh… anxiety inducing to say the least. I’ll try to make a staging copy to experiment in…

    Hi,

    Trying to do this change on a staging website is a great idea. Please let me know how things work ??

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