Items Missing From Search

[christopher_oliver]

Hi guys,

I am having a strange issue with Magento 1.9.0.1.

Certain items do not show up on the frontend search on the website. In order to get them to show again, I have to edit the item via the dashboard and click save. I would do this manually but there are hundreds (If not thousands) of products missing from the front-end search. I have tried the obvious re-indexing etc but still products do not show. There does not seem to be any relation or common factor between the missing products.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this?

Thank you.

[das_tuvokna]

Hi,

You can update your products massively:

1. Log in to your Magento admin

2. Go to Catalog -> Manage products

3. Select items ( you can choose to select all)

4. Actions -> Update attributes

5. Visibility - Catalog, Search

6. Save.

You can also check this article.

Hope this helps.

[gelanivishal]

Hello @christopher_oliver,

Please pick one of the products which did you not get in search result. Open that product in admin side and follow below steps in attached screenshot

After performing above step, Please reindex and clear cache then check it. If you find product in search result then you can update all product visibility by following steps

1. Go to admin side, Catalog > Manage products and perform attached screenshot steps
   
2. Update attribute value, check screenshot
   
3. Please reindex and clear cache 
4. Done.

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[christopher_oliver]

Update: I found a solution as outlined on this blog.

Although time consuming with our five thousand products, the following worked.

Manage Products > Select Visible (I did 200 per page to prevent timeout)

Actions > Update Attributes

Products Information > Websites

Add Product To Websites > Select The Website Again (Main Web Store for us)

Save

They were already selected in there but simply submitting it again resolved the issue with products being missing from the frontend search.

Thank you for your help, much appreciated.