Title: Checkboxes not returning results?
Last modified: June 5, 2020

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# Checkboxes not returning results?

 *  Resolved [slimjim414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slimjim414/)
 * (@slimjim414)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkboxes-not-returning-results/)
 * I could be misunderstanding how this plugin works, but I have ACF checkboxes 
   that are pulling in from my tags taxonomy. When I check several of these, the
   JSON data I get back from the REST API looks like this:
 *     ```
       "acf": {
         ...other data
         "tags": [
           {
             "term_id": 16,
             "name": "black and white",
             "slug": "black-and-white",
             "term_group": 0,
             "term_taxonomy_id": 16,
             "taxonomy": "post_tag",
             "description": "",
             "parent": 0,
             "count": 0,
             "filter": "raw"
           },
           {
             "term_id": 6,
             "name": "mountains",
             "slug": "mountains",
             "term_group": 0,
             "term_taxonomy_id": 6,
             "taxonomy": "post_tag",
             "description": "",
             "parent": 0,
             "count": 0,
             "filter": "raw"
           },
           {
             "term_id": 5,
             "name": "outdoors",
             "slug": "outdoors",
             "term_group": 0,
             "term_taxonomy_id": 5,
             "taxonomy": "post_tag",
             "description": "",
             "parent": 0,
             "count": 1,
             "filter": "raw"
           },
           {
             "term_id": 13,
             "name": "snow",
             "slug": "snow",
             "term_group": 0,
             "term_taxonomy_id": 13,
             "taxonomy": "post_tag",
             "description": "",
             "parent": 0,
             "count": 0,
             "filter": "raw"
           }
         ]
       },
       ```
   
 * Does this plugin have the ability to search by checkbox tags like this?

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 *  Plugin Author [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * (@mateuszgbiorczyk)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkboxes-not-returning-results/#post-12947112)
 * Hi [@slimjim414](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slimjim414/),
 * Thank you for your message.
 * The plugin searches for content based on the ACF fields assigned to posts. In
   your case, it’s about taxonomy, so unfortunately this is not possible.

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## Tags

 * [api](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/api/)
 * [json](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/json/)
 * [rest](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rest/)
 * [tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tags/)

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mateusz Gbiorczyk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mateuszgbiorczyk/)
 * Last activity: [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checkboxes-not-returning-results/#post-12947112)
 * Status: resolved