Title: Search Bar Function isn't working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search Bar Function isn't working

 *  [mtraps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtraps/)
 * (@mtraps)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-function-isnt-working/)
 * Hi Everyone, Iv’e tried almost everything and my search bar function on my website
   doesn’t want to find anything. What can I do to make the search, search the whole
   site?
 * **Things I’ve tried:**
    1)Deactivate all plugins 2)Change Theme 3)Make sure there
   are no other search widgets turned on 4)Change permalinks to default
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [mtraps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtraps/)
 * (@mtraps)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-function-isnt-working/#post-4386827)
 * I should also mention my search.php looks like it only searching posts. How would
   I get it to search the entire website
 *     ```
       <?php
       $search_refer = $_GET["post_type"];
       if ($search_refer == 'post') { load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/search-post.php'); }else{
       load_template(TEMPLATEPATH . '/search-portfolio.php'); }
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [mtraps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtraps/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-bar-function-isnt-working/#post-4386827)
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