Another try by the Total Theme developers to make their own "excerpt" generator hardly replaces the integrated native WP's the_excerpt() method. This is a reason why we can't see Smart Excerpt output in search results when using Total Theme.

How to fix that? Fortunately, the theme developers allowed us to redefine their generator with our own using hooks.

Please open your functions.php from the theme root and add this code to the beginning of the file.

add_filter('wpex_excerpt_output', function($output, $params)
{
	ob_start();
	the_excerpt();
	return ob_get_clean();
}, 10, 2); 

It should help definitely. If you're not familiar with PHP coding and don't want to modify the theme code, you can download and install this addon plugin (which does the same).

Download WPFTS Addon for Total Theme

@jwktje Actually this flag is disabled by default. We know about the disasters it can make. Should be you or someone else who has an access to admin switched it ON occasionally.

Thank you.

@jwktje Please check if you have "Deep Search" flag set ON at the WPFTS Settings / Search & Output page. If so, try to check it OFF.

Also, there may be some limitations with your hoster (for example they limited CPU resources for you in case your website is too heavy for shared hosting etc).

We have an experimental WPFTS version which makes faster search - we could try this too.

@jwktje Which version of WPFTS you are using?

When you're using the BeTheme theme on your website, you may notice that sometimes the search gives really strange results.

It happens because the BeTheme has its own implementation of the search (which is very poor, btw). This search algorithm only searches queried words in post titles and post contents which gives fewer results than the WPFTS Pro search and also does not search in attachment contents etc. This BeTheme algorithm automatically disables itself in case the search query is too complex (and it can not find anything) and this is a place where WPFTS Pro becomes working freely. As a result, you can see an only small amount of results for simple queries and a lot more results for complex queries.

To solve this problem, we need to add this simple line of the code to the functions.php of the BeTheme (or child theme).

function mfn_search( $search_query ) { return false; }; 

This code overrides the internal "genius" search algorithm of BeTheme so it never runs.

Hope this helps!

In the newer versions of Divi, the line number should be 1881. Other things as before.

Hi @Nick

Did you solve the issue? I think we can extract the title from the PDF metadata. Just a little script will be required for that.

Let me know if you still looking for a solution.

Thanks!

Hi Charles @clapierre

We just released v1.35.96 which should have the AND/OR issue fixed. Could you check it?

Thanks!

Hi @teri-sahm

It looks like this message is generated by some other plugin or maybe "auto-suggestion" feature of the theme. Could you try to check if there is an option in the theme settings or some AJAX Search plugin? Could you try to disable it?

Thank you for this report!

Hi Charles

I've just tested 1.34.94 and really, I see the issue. Should be we lost something in the code. I will find the reason for the issue and fix it very soon.