How to show short description for Pages in results

[malkay72Participant]

How can I get the search results box to show the descriptions for normal PAGES on our website. It is only showing pics and short descriptions for Posts (see attached where the top result is the Page ‘Break-through Protection’)

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi,

If your pages have excertps or anything in their description fields, then those would show up. Make sure you have not changerd the primary and secondary description fields here: https://i.imgur.com/CEvO6RM.png
If the configuration is that, then there is no text within the page excerpts nor their content. If you are using some sort of a page builder, it may store the page contents somewhere else – like a custom field. Try maybe changing this option first: https://i.imgur.com/mtAiVTk.png
If the descriptions are printed via a shortcode it should help with that. Otherwise I assume it is stored in a meta field of some sort.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

Unfortunately, that suggestion did not work

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Can you add temporary FTP and back-end access to the site? If you want, I can check if there is anything I can do about it.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

You cannot access this content.

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

You cannot access this content. Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

Are you wanting FTP access or WordPress admin access? That FTP access I have given above of user: wpdreams and pw: N^e3r37d works fine for me when I check with Filezilla.

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Oh, sorry, that actually works, I wanted to try the back-end first.

Unfortunately I can’t see any content when requesting the page contents from WordPress, it returns simply nothing at all, an empty string. If you want, I can try checking the back-end for custom fields as well.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

I’m not an expert in knowing how WordPress pulls the data, so I can’t really comment. You could check the back end. So do you need WordPress login?

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

You cannot access this content. Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Thanks!

I may have found a possible solution. I have added the following custom code to the functions.php file in your theme directory. Please keep it there:

add_filter('asp_results', 'asp_fg_results', 10, 1);
function asp_fg_results($results) {
	foreach ( $results as $k => &$r ) {
		if ( $r->content == '' ) {
			$groups = acf_get_field_groups(array('post_id' => $r->id));
			foreach ( $groups as $group ) {
				$fields = acf_get_fields($group['key']);
				foreach ( $fields as $field ) {
					$s = get_field($field['name'], $r->id);
					if ( !empty($s) ) {
						$r->content = wd_substr_at_word(strip_tags($s), 150) . '..';
						break 2;
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
	return $results;
}

The page contents were indeed empty. Everything was build via ACF, which is unfortunately not searchable and is not returned when requesting the post content. The function above should take care of it to some extent.

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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[malkay72Participant]

That’s very good. Thanks so much for your help

[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

You cannot access this content. Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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