Title: Keywords
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Keywords

 *  Resolved [mtporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtporter/)
 * (@mtporter)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keywords-16/)
 * How can I make keywords accept ‘bus’ vice having to correctly type in the exact
   keyword?
 * ie: if I have a keyword of ‘test2’ and someone types in ‘test’, it does not find
   the listing(s)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/business-directory-plugin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keywords-16/#post-4851966)
 * Hi mtporter,
 * We’re working on some major enhancements to search, including the use of wildcards.
   Without the wildcard, it would currently expect an exact match. We’re going to
   have the first round of these updates in 3.4, more coming in 3.5 since it’s a
   lot to add and we’ve held 3.4 for a long time for recurring payments.
 *  Thread Starter [mtporter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtporter/)
 * (@mtporter)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keywords-16/#post-4851969)
 * ‘Out of the box’ I just assumed the search was wildcard available until after
   I set my directory up and was disappointed to learn it wasn’t. I was going to
   try to convince or try to persuade them to drop 180+ categories and go with 2-
   5, and let the categories become tags or keywords instead, imputed by the listing
   member.
 * I hope soon it can be updated to allow wildcards in the search.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keywords-16/#post-4851969)
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