Hello Martin

I have checked the issue. It seems that Smart Search plugin indexes unpublished and trashed articles too. This is an issue or feature (might be) for Smart Search plugin. We do not have anything to do here. May be you can engage in Joomla Forum about the issue since it is a Joomla issue.

Best regards

Thank you for a quick answer!

Just wondering, wouldn't it be possible to exclude inactive and trashed items in: /plugins/finder/sppagebuilder/sppagebuilder.php

on line 246 in the querie's WHERE statement?

I couldn't imagine this being a feature that disabled and trahsed items come up in the search results :)

And I will see if I can find some more info regading Joomla Smart Search in general.

Thanks!

Martin, If I may...

About delated pages, indeed by default, deleted by user pages are not physically deleted from the database. So I suggest to use PHPMyAdmin and browse prefix_sppagebuilder table and remove those which you don't need anymore. Later reindex Search again.

About unpublished I don't have any tip yet.

Thanks, it is one way to do it, but it's not a viable option explaining this to the end-users (who often have limited knowledge on the matter) that you have to go to the database and mess with some records.

It seems that adding this to the line 261 in: /plugins/finder/sppagebuilder/sppagebuilder.php does the trick: ...
->where($db->quoteName('a.published') . ' = ' . $db->quote('1'));

Just tested and unpublised pages are not indexed anymore.

I just had that problem myself that an unpublished Page Builder page is still being shown as a result via Smart Search in the frontend. This can't be intended behaviour, can it?

I checked and we have that line in plugin already in SPPB 5.7

You have to reindex pages in Smart Search otherwise Joomla still remember that page as published.

Please clear Joomla cache, and reindex again.

If those steps will not help, we need access to admin area to make deeper investigation. But it's OK on our side.