WordPress Search stop working after activating Polylang

Hi!

My tests are done with Twenty themes and it works for me. I know that it does not work natively with some themes because they don’t use one of the 2 standard ways proposed by WP to build a search form and thus Polylang does not detect it.

Please test with Twenty Twelve. If this does not work, please report your Polylang settings and how looks the search url.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I switched the theme to twenty-twelve still the same. All posts are listed instead of only related posts. Here is the search link:
https://sw32.com/en/?s=mysql

My blog uses 2 languages: Chinese and English. When there are not too many posts the search works fine. But when I have more posts I suddenly found it stopped working.

Here is my configuration of Polylang.
https://sw32.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/polylang-configuration.png

The search url is correct. So the cause is not a search form issue as I supected above.

For some reason, the ‘s’ parameter is removed from the query and the homepage is displayed instead of the search page. What is curious is that https://sw32.com/en/search/mysql and https://sw32.com/?lang=en&s=mysql are working.

Could you search if another plugin could conflict?

Hi,

Thanks a lot! But I tried to disable all other plugins except polylang and still the same. Can I change the code inside polylang to make the search likes the forms you mentioned?

https://sw32.com/en/search/mysql
https://sw32.com/?lang=en&s=mysql

It’s not that easy. Maybe by setting up a redirection.

Did you test with no other plugins activated to see if there is a conflict?
Also it may be interesting to install the “Debug Bar” plugin and check the WP Query and the request

Hi,

I’ve tried to disable all other plugins except Polylang but still the same error. The searching function works until I disabled Polylang.

I’ve installed the debug bar. With polylang it showed the query sting is:
======================
Request:

en

Query String:

lang=en

Matched Rewrite Rule:

(zh|en)/?$

Matched Rewrite Query:

lang=en
=============================================
If I disabled the polylang it showed:

Query String:
Request:

None

Query String:

s=mysql

Matched Rewrite Rule:

None

Matched Rewrite Query:

None

Some PHP global variables seem to be incorrect. $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] is incomplete and probably $_GET[‘s’] is not filled. Did you modify the .htaccess created by WP?

Hi,

Bingo! That’s the problem. I found that I didn’t have the .htaccess file. After adding it everything works perfectly!