Search function does not include image descriptions

[langsuyar]

• Create a post
  
• Create an image attachment for that post
  
• Enter a image description for the attachment
  
• Perform a search that uses one of the names from the image description
  
• Wordpress won't display the image pages in the search results.
  

Technically, image descriptions and post content might be different, but image descriptions are displayed in exactly the same manner as post text when the ?atttachmen_id= page is loaded. It is counterintuitive that a blog search does not find any of the attached images.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

I'm tempted to close this as dup. there are so many "search in everything" tickets already...

[lgedeon]

I am still learning the WordPress system and with it php (veteran of several other languages though). I have written one plug-in so far, but still have a lot to learn. So I am not going to pretend to speak with authority. :)

I did look around for similar tickets. Some of them are for other areas that have since been added to search or are covered by plugins, but I did not see this particular issue. Plus, this seems to be particularly well written. I have no authority, but I'll vote for it anyway.

It is something I would actually be interested in working on. Is anyone available to point me in the right direction? I am willing to do the grunt work, and I am doing the research now, but any advice would be appreciated.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

it's in wp-includes/query.php

currently, WP searches in posts, and returns the results (of a like statement) ordered by date desc.

a custom query will reveal a bunch of posts with a description or a summary with search in it. you'll find tons of tickets related to searching in pages, in images, in comments, basically everywhere. not to mention the strong desire to order results by relevance.

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

see #9785