SimpleSearch plugin does not work because...

[petira]

The SimpleSearch plugin did not work. I was looking for a solution in the previous posts and found out that I was not the only one who had the problem.

The solution, of course, is to change the default settings, specifically to clear the blog value in the simplesearch.yaml file, as described in README.md.

Specifically, modify the default setting from

...
filters:
     category: blog
...

to

...
filters:
     category: []
...

or to

...
filters:
     category:
...

Both settings work.

What is important, however, is that the change must be done directly in the simplesearch.yaml file! Because if the change is done via the Admin plugin, the above lines will be completely deleted

...
...

and the SimpleSearch plugin does not work. This is a real bug when making changes to the settings via the graphical interface SimpleSearch plugin.

SimpleSearch v1.14.1 Admin Panel v1.8.1 Grav v1.4.5

[khartahk]

I can confirm this in an issue and the proposed workaround works. But this should be fixed so that you can sue the admin panel to change the settings.

[petira]

In other words, the same problem and possible (but not ideal) solution (#140). I'm convinced that a plugin fix is necessary.

[jneuendorf]

113 seems to be a related issues, too.