Title: Admin search (not?) working
Last modified: August 10, 2026

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# Admin search (not?) working

 *  [Theo Gkitsos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theogk/)
 * (@theogk)
 * [1 day, 23 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-not-working-3/)
 * Hi, I have a small problem with the admin search feature, or maybe I misunderstood
   how it works.
 * I have enabled the “admin search” in the settings. Then I indexed some custom
   fields in my products and I confirmed that they are indexed correctly. Searching
   for them in the frontend returns results, and so does the “Admin search” page(`/
   wp-admin/admin.php?page=relevanssi_admin_search`).
 * But when seraching in the admin product list `/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=product`
   with the custom field, no results are found. Is this the intended behavior? I
   expected to return the same results as the admin search and frontend search form.
   The setting description says “Use Relevanssi for searches inside the WordPress
   dashboard.”, so I guess that it should be working on that page too, right?
 * Sorry if this a stpd question, but I did not find any explanation on the documentation,
   or a previous support topic (sorry if I missed it).
 * Thanks for your time.

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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [1 day, 22 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-not-working-3/#post-18988963)
 * It should work there, but the product search in particular has turned out to 
   be unreliable.
 * I haven’t been able to replicate the problem, but several people have reported
   during the years that the product search is not using Relevanssi. The only solution
   I know is to use the Relevanssi Admin Search – that is always reliably Relevanssi-
   powered.
 * I do know the admin search does not work for hierarchical post types, like pages,
   but products generally aren’t a hierarchical post type.
 * Do you use WooCommerce or some other plugin for the products?

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 * Last reply from: [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * Last activity: [1 day, 22 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-not-working-3/#post-18988963)
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