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peterhulst
20 Jan 2026

Steps to reproduce the issue

Have different categories: published, unpublished, archived, public and registered.
In all search plugin's the switch: Search Archived Content: YES

Expected result

Articles with archived categories are indexed.

Actual result

Articles with archived categories are NOT indexed.

System information (as much as possible)

Joomla 5.4.2

Additional comments

  • When defining a filter, the archived categories and unpublished categories are not visible.
  • Also in de database, table : finder_taxonomy, the archived categories and unpublished categories are not entered.
  • As an experiment I modified administrator\components\com_finder\src\Indexer\Taxonomy.php
    line 123:
    if ($state != 1) {
    --> meaning $state: not published (1), thus unpublished or not archived (2)
    changed to
    if ($state == 0) {
    --> meaning $state: unpublished (0)

Now the archived categories are in the filter and table : finder_taxonomy

So the plugin's the switch: Search Archived Content: YES does not work properly

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Title
Start Search does not index archived categories / articles
Smart Search does not index archived categories / articles
avatar peterhulst peterhulst - edited - 20 Jan 2026
avatar peterhulst peterhulst - change - 20 Jan 2026
Title
Smart Search does not index archived categories / articles
Smart Search does not index archived categories
avatar peterhulst peterhulst - edited - 20 Jan 2026
avatar peterhulst peterhulst - change - 20 Jan 2026
Title
Smart Search does not index archived categories
Smart Search does not index archived categories with plugins: Search Archived Content: YES
avatar peterhulst peterhulst - edited - 20 Jan 2026
avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 25 Jan 2026

Can you clarify if the articles in the archived category are also archived.

Also I suspect that the problem is the code for Search Archived Content is looking for archived content in published categories

avatar peterhulst
peterhulst - comment - 25 Jan 2026

@brianteeman I have archived categories and the articles in it are published and restricted.
In case the category is archived all articles in it should also be seen as archived.
The code for Search Archived Content should see that.

By the way:
my published articles in archived categories are not indexed in table: taxonomy. With my (very simple) modification it works properly.

avatar brianteeman
brianteeman - comment - 25 Jan 2026

In case the category is archived all articles in it should also be seen as archived

Either that assumption is incorrect or the code doesn't account for that scenario. I'm not familiar enough with the intent to comment further

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