Having a Custom Post Type show in Custom Search Results option

[gwhitehead]

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I have a CPT for Product Categories. When I go to the Custom Results section of ElasticPress, I try to set up a search term and then search for a title of one of the Product Categories that is set up. I am not able to see the category that is the exact term that I am looking for within the available pages?

Or is there a way to set up custom URL's as a landing page? For instance, I want to send to a #bookmarked location on a specific page within the website.

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[felipeelia]

Hi @gwhitehead! ElasticPress will display all CPTs that are not excluded from search (see here and then here.

If you want, please share the code you are using to create that CPT, so we can try to reproduce it from our side.

[gwhitehead]

Here is the arguments part of the register post type for the CPT product:

$args = [ "label" => __( "Products", "custom-post-type-ui" ), "labels" => $labels, "description" => "", "public" => true, "publicly_queryable" => true, "show_ui" => true, "show_in_rest" => false, "rest_base" => "", "rest_controller_class" => "WP_REST_Posts_Controller", "has_archive" => false, "show_in_menu" => true, "show_in_nav_menus" => true, "delete_with_user" => false, "exclude_from_search" => false, "capability_type" => "post", "map_meta_cap" => true, "hierarchical" => false, "rewrite" => [ "slug" => "product", "with_front" => true ], "query_var" => true, "supports" => [ "title", "editor", "thumbnail", "excerpt", "revisions", "page-attributes" ], "show_in_graphql" => false, ];

I had to manually run a wp elasticpress sync --post-type="product" to get it to finally show products that had been in the system for a few months. There are a lot of additional fields in the system so I usually have to run the sync via the wp-cli to get it to fire.

[gwhitehead]

And here is the product category post type:

$args = array( 'label' => __( 'Product Category', 'text_domain' ), 'description' => __( 'Product Category', 'text_domain' ), 'labels' => $labels, 'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'page-attributes' ), 'hierarchical' => true, 'public' => true, 'show_ui' => true, 'show_in_menu' => true, 'menu_position' => 40, 'show_in_admin_bar' => true, 'show_in_nav_menus' => true, 'can_export' => true, 'has_archive' => true, 'exclude_from_search' => false, 'publicly_queryable' => true, 'capability_type' => 'page', );

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[gwhitehead]

I have made sure to go through all of the functions code to ensure nothing is being marked as excluded. Also not being marked as excluded via a checkbox either. It wasn't until I told the search to manually search just that post type that it started to show up in search results.

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[felipeelia]

@gwhitehead I tried to reproduce the problem but I couldn't. If I use that code to create a post type and create an entry, it is displayed in search by default. As you've already figured out how to work around your specific problem, I'm going ahead and closing the issue.