How to return search results for words/content that are found on page templates?

Shopify Apps

Topic summary

A merchant reports that Shopify’s default Search and Discovery app isn’t returning results for words that appear within page templates. The setting to include “pages” in search is enabled, yet content embedded in the template does not surface in results.

They seek a way—via settings or a third‑party app—to index and return template-based page content in search. As an example, searching “PDAC” should surface the Medical Providers page (https://taycobrace.com/pages/medical-providers), where that term appears.

They’ve reviewed support resources and Google without success. Theme support responded that this behavior “isn’t possible within Shopify,” which the merchant questions given the basic need to search page content.

Status: No solution provided in the thread; the request remains open, with the key question being whether Shopify can index template/section content on pages or if a third‑party search app is required.

Summarized with AI on December 15. AI used: gpt-5.
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Hello! I looked through support content, scoured Google, and can’t find anything … my question is about search. When using the search functionality on our live site, it doesn’t return results for words/content that are found on a page templates. Is there a setting or an app in which I can change this? It seems like something that should be possible. I’m using the default Shopify Search and Discovery app and the setting is checked to return pages. I requested support from my theme and they said it currently isn’t possible within Shopify, but I find that so hard to believe that basic search won’t pull up a page with a specific word on it.

For example, when you search PDAC on our website, I would like it to return this page in which that information is found on: https://taycobrace.com/pages/medical-providers.