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1. sdhunt
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   It seems as though the WP search only returns results that match all of the words one searches for. So, if I search for "cars" and "dogs" I only get posts that contain both the word "cars" and the word "dogs" in them.
   Is there a hack or plugin to have the search include results that match any of the words searched for? So, it would also return results that only have one of the search words in them.

2. ClaytonJames
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   The whole premise of multiple keyword searching (as it relates to a blog - in my opinion anyhow-) is to narrow the scope of the search to articles that include all of the key words entered in the search string. What you want to do sounds like maybe actually widening the search engine capabilities by including the ability to use boolean search operators. (ie.. AND, OR etc...)

   Here is what came back on my plugin search;

   //wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=boolean+search

   and a forum search ;

   //wordpress.org/search/boolean+search?forums=1

   //wordpress.org/search/advanced+search?forums=1

   -at a glance, this looks pretty interesting

   //wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enhanced-search-form/

   Here is an interesting blog article posted in march of this year by someone with the same intentions.

   That is a great question. I'm sorry I don't really know the answer.

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