Smart Search results missing a category and settings for paginated results

Question

Joomla 3.10.11

I cannot find the settings for this. I have been experimenting with the native search, smart search and an extension for advanced search. We are most happy with the results from smart search but it is missing the articles from a content category we created... we have products, faq, etc all the articles from these categories show up in search results. the articles from the category Producers dont. I suspect this is due to some display setting I didnt add this particular category to, but I cannot find it. I also cannot find where to set the number of article results per list page.

I have disabled the regular search plugin. I looked through the menu items, components and plugins and options for smart search. I have confirmed my smart search index contains the articles for the category. When I enable regular search the category articles appear. they are published etc.

I feel like there must be a set of options somewhere I am missing that control both the result numbers and layout (like a normal category blog page) and what categories to search in. What am I missing???

Answer 1

Go to Smart Search > Content Maps and check if these articles are published. You should see a green box beside your category with the number of the pubslihed articles.

Make sure that the category is published and it's articles too, under the content maps.