Installing Yext Plugin on WordPress Locally

Search Best Practices - Search Configuration
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I’m trying to install the Yext Answers Site Search WordPress Plugin locally on a website to test and can’t make this work.

Let me know if there is a solution as I’d like to use this WordPress plugin for a single-site search only.

So for example, if my local URL is example.local/ I can use my default WordPress search box and look for “diabetes” and go to example.local/?s=diabetes to see the search results.

Yet when I added the Yext WordPress search box (via the [yext_searchbar] shortcode) on the local website (like example.local/) and do a search, I go to example.local/?query=diabetes and do not view the search results page. On the search results page I added the [yext_results_page] shortcode.

On the Yext WP Admin page (example.local/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=yext_answers_options) I added data in the fields (see example) and example.local/iframe.js in the iFrame Script URL field (with the https:// as well).

Thanks!

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Hi Matt,

We’re happy to help you troubleshoot your Yext Answers WordPress plugin. However, it’s a bit difficult to debug without being able to see how you are configuring the plugin. Would you be able to share screenshots with your configuration? You can email hitchhikers-support@yext.com with these screenshots. This will create a ticket with us to maintain your privacy.

We also have a guide on Integrating Answers with WordPress that might help you troubleshoot what’s going on.

Thanks!
Kristy