Title: Does Lovecraft block search plugins
Last modified: April 16, 2019

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# Does Lovecraft block search plugins

 *  Resolved [maparle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maparle/)
 * (@maparle)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/)
 * I cannot work out if the problem is with the theme Lovecraft or with the plugin
   Relevanssi.
    I have installed and activated the Relevanssi search plugin. However
   search results are not using Relevanssi. Results page has not changed. Results
   have no highlighting of search term and show complete page(s) instead of extract,
   with no link(s) to page(s). The search form is in the page footer. I use Relevanssi
   on another site (different theme) and it works very well. Also I have tried activating
   another search plugin, Ivory Search, on this site and that does not work either.
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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/#post-11434314)
 * Hi [@maparle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maparle/),
 * Lovecraft doesn’t do anything special with the search results, so if it isn’t
   behaving the way it should, my guess would be that the issue is in the plugin.
 * — Anders
 *  [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/#post-11436688)
 * I’m the search plugin author maparle went to next… The search plugin (Relevanssi)
   works fine with Lovecraft, it’s just that Lovecraft shows full posts on the search
   results pages (because there’s no specific search results content template). 
   That’s what confused maparle.
 * That’s not what most users except, so I would suggest making the default behaviour
   to show excerpts on search results pages instead of full posts – have that as
   an option if you like, but I’m pretty sure most users – and all search plugins–
   expect to see `the_excerpt()` instead of `the_content()` on the search results
   page.
    -  This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/).
 *  Thread Starter [maparle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maparle/)
 * (@maparle)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/#post-11437269)
 * Anders, It is Lovecraft that is the problem. I have made the changes to content.
   php as suggested by Mikko Saari and I now get excerpts and search word highlighted.
   However no link shown and excerpts not formatted as normally expected. Please
   think about adding a searchresults.php file to your theme to properly handle 
   search query results. Thank you, Michael.
 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/#post-11437478)
 * Hi [@msaari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/),
 * I see – thanks for the reply! And sorry for pointing fingers.
 * [@maparle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maparle/): Outputting the excerpt
   strips the formatting from the content, which is why I prefer not using it. You
   can use the More block/button to cut off the content on archive pages and display
   a “Read More” button, like on the demo site: [http://andersnoren.se/themes/lovecraft/](http://andersnoren.se/themes/lovecraft/)
   It sounds like that doesn’t work with the search plugin though, so you can leave
   the changes Mikko helped you with as-is.
 * — Anders

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 * Last reply from: [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-lovecraft-block-search-plugins/#post-11437478)
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