Deleted Posts Appearing In Search Results

  • Resolved TJR1994

    (@tjr1994)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi everybody,

    I recently installed Better Search on the site I’m working on and it’s all running brilliantly except for one small issue I am having. I’ve noticed that deleted posts are still being listed in search results. I’d assume this would be something to do with the plugin caching stuff. If I am correct, is there a way to clear the cache? If I’m wrong, then is this a bug?

    Has anybody else had this problem or know anything about it?

    Any help is appreciated, thanks!

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search/

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    This is because the mySQL FULLTEXT index which the plugin created still has references to the deleted posts.

    Recreating the index from within the plugin is currently a missing feature and I need to add a button in to do this.

    Do you have access to your mySQL database to run a query to update the FULLTEXT table?

    Thread Starter TJR1994

    (@tjr1994)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Ajay,

    Thanks for the response, I do have access to my MySQL table through my server CPanel but I no longer to fix the problem as I have uninstalled the plugin (my client has now said they don’t want a search bar on their site).

    Thank you for you support though and if I ever work on a site where a good search engine is required in the future, I’ll be sure to use this plugin as I feel it is much higher quality than most of the other free search plugins available.

    I don’t know if you’ll still want to post the MySQL query you mentioned as a point of reference for other people who may be having the same problem?

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    TJR, Thanks for the update.

    I’ll be adding a button in the next version so that users don’t need to mess with the database.

    solhuebner

    (@solhuebner)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Good news 🙂

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