kcox117 on "Problem with Wordpress Search"

Hello,

I’m having problems with the native search on my wordpress site. I followed all the instructions on this page…

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page

… and I set up a search page using a search page template. For now this is just a blank page with URL /search with the search box on it.

However, when I type a keyword into the search box, such as “irrigation” (which should bring up tons of results on my website), and click the search button, it brings me to the /?s=irrigation results page successfully, but it doesn’t display the actual results - only grey dotted lines. When I inspect element on the page, I can see that these dotted lines are just CSS borders for what should be the results themselves, and I can see the individual divs for the specific search results in the code, but they’re just empty - as shown:

<div class="post-8561 page type-page status-publish hentry post_box top" id="post-8561">
</div>
<div class="post-8560 product type-product status-publish has-post-thumbnail post_box taxable shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple product-cat-outright instock" id="post-8560">
</div>
<div class="post-8559 product type-product status-publish has-post-thumbnail post_box taxable shipping-taxable purchasable product-type-simple product-cat-outright instock" id="post-8559">
</div>

The system knows how many and which exact products/pages/etc should be retued in search results, but it doesn't display the actual content.

Any idea on what could be causing this problem?

Thanks!