Title: search doesen't work *desperate* Last modified: August 24, 2016 --- # search doesen't work *desperate* * [timo2323](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timo2323/) * (@timo2323) * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesent-work-desperate/) * Hey all, I have been testing for about 8 hours now but I just cannot get my search engine to work properliy. It doesn’t show any search results at all! * I have already updated and disabled all plugin updates, tried several different search.php and searchform.php but nothing works…! * I hope that anybody of you can fix it. Would be awesome cause I am kind of desperate and frustrated now! * The only way I could get it to work was using the plugin “advanced search” and replacing the search loop in the search.php with . … * my blog is [http://bwa-blog.de](http://bwa-blog.de) * [Large code excerpt removed by moderator per [forum rules](https://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code). Please use [the pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/) for all large code excerpts. It works better anyway.] The topic ‘search doesen't work *desperate*’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 0 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [timo2323](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timo2323/) * Last activity: [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-doesent-work-desperate/) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics