Reply To: Customize Search to display results across all categories together

01/30/2015 at 2:18 pm #317631
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Oliver

Let deal with the search issue first rather trying to address multiple items at once. I think that’ll be easier for us … definitely easier for me and faster.

First question, do you have any security related plugins installed, such as WP-SpamShield?

If you do, check their option for anything about blocking suspicious queries.

I’m focussing on this directory because something is cause a 403 access denied message on query strings that are outside the root domain.

For example, this core WordPress search will work on you site:
http://www.pilgrimassembliesinternational.org/?s=churches

But if I go up a page:
http://www.pilgrimassembliesinternational.org/churches/?s=chuches

This will fail. NOTE, this is the core WP search, see the ?s a Connections search will be ?cn-s.

This should show the WordPress search results page. Instead, the server response with a 403 access denied message.

This can be caused by a plugin or a server setting… So let start by looking at plugins.