Support » Plugin: gee Search Plus, improved WordPress search » Search limit clarification.

  • Resolved monitor

    (@oomskaap)


    I’m curious about one thing. Our site has about 8 “iFace” cases for Galaxy S4.

    So when you search

    iface galaxy s4

    you get all 8 results.

    But when you search

    iface phone case galaxy s4

    it only returns one result, which happen to have “phone” in the title, so I can see why.

    But most importantly, why not the other 8 results, since all of them have “iface” and “galaxy s4” clearly in the title?

    Because of this the searches are a bit too specific and cannot cater for a broader audience who each uses different terms to search things, but essentially includes both important parts which is “iface” and “galaxy s4”

    Is there any way you can improve on the above scenario as I really like your search plugin and do not want to change to another.

    Thanks

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/gsearch-plus/

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  • Plugin Author Luis Godinho

    (@luistinygod)

    Hi oomskaap,

    Thanks for your continuous feedback about this plugin. Appreciated!

    As stated on the features list, the plugin is working on an ‘AND-query’ mode, which means that all the searched terms need to be present in the combination of the post title + content. This is probably the reason you’re getting the results described.

    I’ll be reviewing the plugin’s code in a few days and I’ll introduce the ‘OR-query’ mode which will save your day.

    Thanks

    Thread Starter monitor

    (@oomskaap)

    Thank you! You’re the best.

    Plugin Author Luis Godinho

    (@luistinygod)

    I would also suggest to define phone as a stopword on your site, since probably all the posts have the ‘phone’ word thus not improving the search at all.

    As per your request, the OR-query type (match at least one word) will be available at version 1.3.0 to be released this week (with WP 3.7).

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