Title: Admin search Problem
Last modified: February 4, 2022

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# Admin search Problem

 *  [RL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lutzryan/)
 * (@lutzryan)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-problem/)
 * Hello
 * Im rebuilding a site and my goal is to find a way to ADMIN search for tagged 
   pages, and ruling out partial matches
 * Ive tried modifiying the settings, and Im still not able to search tags. Is this
   the best plugin to execute this task?
 * Im looking for the lightest plugin possible
 * thanks in advance,
 * thrive architect, relvanassi
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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-problem/#post-15331050)
 * Well, for starters, Relevanssi certainly isn’t the lightest plugin possible; 
   it’s a very heavy plugin. It’s also designed for the front end search, and the
   admin search is something of an afterthought.
 * So from the get-go, it doesn’t seem like a great match for your needs. You’re
   probably better off with something else.
 * You should be able to get reasonable results by setting Relevanssi to index the
   tags, setting the keyword matching to “Whole words” and then searching with the
   Relevanssi admin search (Dashboard > Admin search).
 * But like I said, that’s definitely not a light solution, Relevanssi takes up 
   a lot of database space to achieve that.
 *  Thread Starter [RL](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lutzryan/)
 * (@lutzryan)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-problem/#post-15331084)
 * Hey Mikko, and thanks for your response.
 * Adding search function is something we are going to look at in the future, but
   not in the plans for 2022. Is there a light plugin that would allow searching
   the admin database? When I say light, my concern is dragging down front end speed,
   and back end is a smaller concern.
 * I have pages, posts, and tags and categories chosen. However, it seems that it
   is still returning results from meta titles and descriptions. Thus throwing off
   my results.
 * Any idea which other setting I need to modify to constrain searches to only titles,
   tags, and categories. Do I need to specify title in the custom post type. If 
   so, how?
 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-problem/#post-15331088)
 * If that’s what you mean with light, then yes, Relevanssi is light; it has no 
   effect on the front end speed outside searching. It will, however, automatically
   take over your front end search, which is not what you want.
 * Relevanssi does not index meta titles or descriptions unless you make it so. 
   Make sure “Custom fields to index” is set to “None”. Also, disable post content
   with this in your theme functions.php:
 * `add_filter( 'relevanssi_index_content', '__return_false' );`
 * You can use the Relevanssi debugger (on the Debugging tab of Relevanssi settings)
   to see how Relevanssi sees your posts and what content is being indexed.
 * In general, I think you’ll find yourself having lots of headaches with Relevanssi,
   especially if you at some point want a full front-end search, but still want 
   to keep this reduced back-end search; that’s not impossible, but it is hard to
   do.
 * Overall, I would recommend looking into other solutions than Relevanssi; Relevanssi
   is not a good match for your needs right now.

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 * Last reply from: [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-search-problem/#post-15331088)
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