Reply To: Directory entry returns template not found error for site search

11/23/2015 at 3:02 pm #356091
Steven Zahm
Keymaster

@ Susan

re: As a thought going forward, integration would be very helpful, since search is the most obvious solution to finding a particular person. I’m sure it would be a huge overhaul, but if Connections entries were a special post type would they be findable by site search?

This is not possible as Connections uses custom tables for its data, not a CPT. There are many reason but the most relevant is the the db schema for Connections is optimized for directories where as the core WP CPT schema is optimized for, well, posts. There is no way to integrate custom search results into the core default search results because the API only allows for returning post search results.

re: I would like to get rid of the error message, looks kinda funky.

I have never used Relevanssi, but I image there is on option to exclude pages from being index, I suggest excluding the page so the error message will not be displayed. I’m guessing Relevanssi is altering the error output that is why it does not seem to be coming from Connections.

Hope that helps!