About bbpress search results

What does it mean when a topic is closed? What happens to the topic post? What is it’s status? I know very little of how bbPress works.

It looks like this may be a custom post status. In that case, this should help:

function rlv_add_status( $status_array ) {
    $status_array[] = 'closed';
    return $status_array;
}
add_filter( 'relevanssi_valid_status', 'rlv_add_status' );
add_filter( 'relevanssi_valid_admin_status', 'rlv_add_status' );

Add this to your theme functions.php and rebuild the index. Does that help?

I’d need to know how bbPress handles the “closed” status. Is it with a custom status and if it is, what is the name of the status? I can’t help more without this information. You can find the status of the threads from your wp_posts database table: find a closed topic and see what the post status is.

Hmm, in that case, the code above should solve the case. Did you rebuild the index after adding the code? If that doesn’t help, I’m unfortunately out of ideas. That’s the only way to get Relevanssi to include a custom post status in the results. If you check the Relevanssi admin search (Dashboard > Admin search), does that find the closed topics?

Ok, there’s your explanation: your front-end search is not using Relevanssi. That’s why nothing you do with Relevanssi is going to affect that.

Admin search is Relevanssi, and as you can see, it’s working correctly.

Do you use some kind of an Ajax search on your site?

Can I see your site? If you don’t use any search plugins, then it’s probably in your theme.

I can’t see any particular reason why the search wouldn’t work. Here are some tools for debugging Relevanssi search issues you can try. If you search for a closed topic and check the query with Query Monitor, is Relevanssi active and returning the result?

Is it possible Relevanssi returns the closed topics, but your theme only displays open topics on the search results page?