Why would a product appear in search not category

[gary_atkins]

So I have added a product to my catalog and this is now visible if I use the search bar on my site. If I try to find the product by crawling through my categories it does not appear. I can clearly see the product has categories which are selected and in every way i can see it is the same as the ones which were uploaded from my data file on day 1. What is it I have likely missed?

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi @gary_atkins,

Try the reindexing once and flush the cache.

To reset the indexing:
php bin/magento indexer:reset

For indexing:
php bin/magento indexer:index
php bin/magento cache:flush

I hope it will help you!

[Manthan Dave]

Hi @gary_atkins 

I think you missed out selection of product visibility  from the product add/edit form in the backend.

Please check and confirm that visibility is Catalog,Search

To showcase the products in categories you will required to select Catalog,Search

If you have already selected both then as suggested - do reindexing and run cache clean and cache flush command

it will resolved your problem - hope it helps !