Search boxes don't return results for posts

[Chineseand]

Both on my site, running a child theme off of bp_default, and on buddypress.org, the search boxes don't return results. They both just return the landing page.

Also, not sure if this is a bug or what, but I haven't had any luck getting the activity stream to show "the_excerpt"

[r-a-y]

Try the search on testbp.org.

There's a search box in the top-right corner of the page. Select "Pages" from the dropdown menu and search.

Is that what you mean? It works for me.

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About "the_excerpt", you'll need to create a plugin by hooking into the filters available in /buddypress/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-activity.php. It might be good for BP to use the_excerpt by default, but a new enhancement ticket should be created for that.

[Chineseand]

Yes, that works. Is it a different core theme? I'm using a child theme of BPDefault. Does BuddyPress.org run as a child of BPdefault (because search doesn't seem to work there either..?

About "the_excerpt", you'll need to create a plugin by hooking into the filters available in /buddypress/bp-blogs/bp-blogs-activity.php. It might be good for BP to use the_excerpt by default, but a new enhancement ticket should be created for that.

Not sure how to do this, but will look into it more.

Thanks!

[Chineseand]

It would appear to be related to the version of BuddyPress I have - search doesn't work on any of the themes I have when BP is installed, but does when BP deactivated. I have Version 1.5.3.1 installed. Are buddypress.org and ​http://testbp.org/ running different versions?

Is there a central place for downloading older versions of BP?

[Chineseand]

I activated/deactivated a couple plugins including BP, and search seems to be working now. Sorry for the run around - although there does appear to be the same issue on buddypress.org.

[DJPaul]

If you can figure out what plugin caused the error, that would be interesting.