Title: WP Search
Last modified: September 14, 2018

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# WP Search

 *  Resolved [dblinks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dblinks/)
 * (@dblinks)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-search-3/)
 * This plugin appears to disable the standard search (removes /?s=term) and only
   redirects to the adverts page, in my case “classifieds”.
 * Is this the intended behaviour? If so I would like to request a workaround to
   allow searching WordPress normally for posts and authors etc.
 * thanks!!
    stu
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwp-search-3%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Greg Winiarski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gwin/)
 * (@gwin)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-search-3/#post-10694548)
 * Hi,
    WPAdverts does not disable the default WordPress search, i am checking this
   functionality on my dev site right now (with TwentyTwelve theme) and it seems
   to be working fine.
 * On your site in the HTML source i noticed that the search form has a hidden field
 *     ```
       <input type="hidden" name="post_type" value="advert">
       ```
   
 * So when you search the actual search URL is [https://madison.countypickers.com/?s=test&post_type=advert](https://madison.countypickers.com/?s=test&post_type=advert)(
   by default it should be just [https://madison.countypickers.com/?s=test](https://madison.countypickers.com/?s=test)).
   This is causing a redirect, but the field is not a part of the default search
   widget, so i cannot really tell where is it coming from.
 * You can try disabling other plugins you have installed on site one by one and
   see when and if the problem goes away, if it does not then you can try switching
   the theme to TwentyTwelve and see if this will help.
 *  Thread Starter [dblinks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dblinks/)
 * (@dblinks)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-search-3/#post-10695667)
 * Thank you for the detailed reply. I will try all you asked and get back to you.
   
   stu

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 * Last reply from: [dblinks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dblinks/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-search-3/#post-10695667)
 * Status: resolved