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5um17 / wp-extended-search

Extend default search to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types and all authors.
https://www.secretsofgeeks.com/2014/09/wordpress-search-tags-and-categories.html
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Can't search for tag and author when not logged in #18

Open WenqianC opened 1 year ago

WenqianC commented 1 year ago

Hi,

When searching for keyword in a password protected article, if the person who searches it is not logged in, then the returned result will not contain articles that includes the tag or published by author. Is this a bug?

Thank you!

5um17 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

Password protected posts are not visible in search results. This is default WordPress behavior. You can see this even you disable this plugin.

I think this is good for security reason as you are likely to share the post password with post link and users who doesn't have a link (most likely anonymous users) to the post can not find the password protected post from search result.

Still if you would like to alter this behavior you can use this snippet from here https://www.isitwp.com/include-password-protected-posts-in-search-results/ just replace posts_search filter with wpes_posts_search.

Hope this helps!