Search widget and Search Map Not working

Hello we have installed the geodirectory plugin we are having problems with the various search methods.

In the serach field on the map: It doesn’t search for the category name but for the title of a listing. e.g. if we search for “hotels” it doesn’t find anything even though it’s a category; if we search for “hotel” it finds all listings with the word in the title.

In the search field which is part of the theme: Again it searches for the word in the title and content but doesn’t take into consideration tags or categories.

In an external search widget (Jetpack): Same as the one integrated in the theme. It searches through the title and content but nowhere else.

In the Geodirectory search widget: same as Jetpack and Theme search fields.

So could you please advice on what could be the problem? Ideally all search fields/widgets should search a term using tags and categories instead of titles and content (e.g. a Lodge would be in the Hotels category with the hotels tag but since it’s not called HOTEL it won’t be found in any of the search fields)

Thanks