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We have a client who would like to display comments in the search results. Say I search for “potatoes” and there is an entry called “How to cook potatoes” and a comment that reads “I really like potatoes.” We’d like the search results to show something like:

Your search for "potatoes" yielded 2 results:

1. How to cook potatoes

2. I really like potatoes

Currently using the simple search form with search_in=“everywhere” and the example search results template does not accomplish this; indeed, searching for keywords within comments that exist does not return results at all.

I found a forum thread about this where this was tracked as a bug that was resolved. Is the inability to find comments in searches the result of user error, or is the simple search form not capable of returning comments as I’d like?

Any help is much appreciated.

Hi Ryan,

the Simple search form will search associated comments meaning that the results will show the entry itself.
Your example results is not possible out of the box as the results form only allows you to use the Channel Entries Tag Variables.

There is an add-on called Search Results which really beefs up functionality for this page. You could query them to see if what you wish is available

Other than that you are welcome to make a feature request

Thanks John!

I’m still not getting entries to show by searching comments…I’m going to look deeper as I’m sure it’s user error.

Hi Ryan,

Make sure you’re testing with a really simple template to begin with. Also, I wasn’t sure what version and build you were on. Keep us posted on your progress.