Thanks for the response.
Is there a way to make that search return without the quotes? While I’m familiar with refining searches with quotes, it’s our web patrons that aren’t as adapt to refining searches that I’m trying to support. So my goal was to push searches using “half day” to the pages returned when using quotes.
Not really. You can force all searches to use quotes, but that’s going to hurt more than help.
If you’re using an OR search, this may help to get better results.
Some searches are worse than others; here both “half” and in particular “day” are not very good search terms as they are common, and there’s little that can be done about that.
Thanks for your response. Maybe, maybe down the road it could be added as an option, I’m a novice PHP user and try to avoid making changes if possible. Not to say that I haven’t or can’t but I have so little time for research and development that I generally aim for a quick fix. Not your issue just my dilemma (based on the number of sites I manage).
All and all still one of my favorite plugins of all time well worth what we spent.
The phrase search is a lot more complicated than regular search and uses a lot more server resources. That’s why I don’t really recommend using it any more than is necessary. It also doesn’t find everything the non-phrase search does.
The code snippet I gave above does improve OR search results a lot. It’s actually good enough that I might make it a part of the plugin at some point.
