WordPress search only works with posts, not pages

Question

I'm working on my own custom WordPress theme, using a blank, default template to start. I haven't edited the search.php file.

Many of my WordPress posts are Pages. Unfortunately, the site search only retrieves posts, not pages.

Any idea how to get the theme to search both posts and pages?

Here is the majority of search.php:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

    <h3>Search Results</h3>

    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/nav.php' ); ?>

    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

        <div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

            <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h4>

            <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/meta.php' ); ?>

            <div class="entry">
                <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
            </div>

        </div>

    <?php endwhile; ?>

    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/inc/nav.php' ); ?>

<?php else : ?>

    <h3>No posts found.</h3>

<?php endif; ?>

Answer 1

Add this code to your functions.php file.

function wpshock_search_filter( $query ) {
    if ( $query->is_search ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array('post','page') );
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts','wpshock_search_filter');

http://wpth.net/limit-wordpress-search-results-to-specific-post-types