Search on Menus Page Bad Results

Hi! I’m setting up menus on a big site (several hundred pages). When I try to search for pages to add them to the menu, I’m getting weird results—basically anything *but* the page I’m actually searching for. Example:

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Screenshot shows results when searching for the word “Adviser”. I have numerous pages with that word in the title, such as “Advisers,” “Adviser Resource Center,” etc. None of them come back in the search, while pages <i>without</i> the search term do.

Potential factors:

• There are many pages that share the same title. I would expect that to give me more relevant results rather than fewer, but maybe they’re canceling each other out or something?
• Page hierarchy is pretty complex—five or six levels deep in some places. Could it be taking the titles/slugs of parent & child pages into account?

I’ve tried deactivating all plugins and switching to a stock theme (Twenty Seventeen) to no avail. Seems to be either an issue with my site’s data/environment, or with WordPress itself.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated!

• This topic was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by Kaelri.