Title: WordPress search not working
Last modified: November 6, 2017

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# WordPress search not working

 *  [justwander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justwander/)
 * (@justwander)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-not-working-3/)
 * Hello.
    I’ve been on the forums for a couple of weeks and cannot use the Search
   Forums function at the top of the page. It just get a message that says loading
   and nothing happens. There is just the header, a light gray band that says “Loading,”
   and the footer.
 * It makes it difficult to do things like see if anyone else has had this problem.
    -  This topic was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/).

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-not-working-3/#post-9653706)
 * To rule out any plugin/theme conflict, try:
    – deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins
   temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere).
   If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic
   plugin(s). – switching to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Seventeen.) for 
   a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions
   can interfere like plugins).
 *  Thread Starter [justwander](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justwander/)
 * (@justwander)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-not-working-3/#post-9656910)
 * Sorry [@t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/).
 * This is the forum search that is the problem, like at the top of the page we 
   are reading. When I come to the forums it is impossible to search through the
   different posts because the loader seems to get stuck.
 * But now that you mention it, I will test the search on my website too.
 * Again, sorry for any confusion.
 *  [Forrest_Snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forrest_snyder/)
 * (@forrest_snyder)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-not-working-3/#post-9978498)
 * Was there ever a resolution to this issue? I’m using Firefox Developer Edition
   59.0b9, Safari 10.1.2, and Firefox 58.0.2 on OSX El Capitan (10.11.6) and cannot
   get the wordpress.org search function to work on any page. Just so it is clear,
   I am trying to search the wordpress.org forums and get nothing more than a “loading”
   message on a search page when looking for a word or phrase in the forums. I’ve
   been trying for days without success!

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 * [forum search](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forum-search/)
 * [forums](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forums/)
 * [wordpress search](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-search/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Forrest_Snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forrest_snyder/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-not-working-3/#post-9978498)
 * Status: not resolved

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