Search functionality

Hi @kzncraig,

Please make sure are you also enabled the Companies post type in your search feature.

If you still have issue please contact your search feature plugin author.

Thanks, Abbas

@abbas – thanks for your reply

I do not use a search feature plugin. I used a search form similar to what is used on WP Job Manager using their tutorial Tutorial: Creating a custom job search?form.

I thought that search functionality would be a standard feature in MAS Companies For WP Job Manager.

I tried to enable the companies post type using various ways and nothing worked.

I tried using: <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="companies" /> in my search form but this did not work.

I tried to register the post_type “companies” in functions/php like this:

  function wporg_custom_post_type() {
  	register_post_type('companies',
  		array(
  			'labels'      => array(
  				'name'          => __('Companies', 'textdomain'),
  				'singular_name' => __('Company', 'textdomain'),
  			),
  				'public'      => true,
  				'has_archive' => true,
  				'exclude_from_search' => false,
  				'publicly_queryable' => true,
  		)
  	);
  }
  add_action('init', 'wporg_custom_post_type');

Did not work.

I also tried using a plugin called Custom Post Type UI and added “companies” as a post type. This did not work.

Can you tell me how to: “Please make sure are you also enabled the Companies post type in your search feature.”

The search here is working for JOBS https://gedafrica.com/jobs/job-seekers/

Here is the companies page https://gedafrica.com/jobs/businesses/ where the search is NOT working.

Update: I ended up using a search plugin called Ivory Search and all works nicely now.

Thank you for sharing with us the most compatible plugin.