In response to this comment from nearly three years ago.
I have implemented a new plugin to replace the standard WordPress search.
There are various parameters I can play around with and I probably will over the next few days/weeks.
In a nutshell:
- Commas are ignored,
- so a search for “1,234” is equivalent to “1234” and vice versa
- Search terms are anded together.
- so a search for “chalk cheese” will only show posts containing both “chalk” and “cheese“, not posts containing only one of those words
- Within search results, the search term(s) are highlighted
- and the highlighting is carried through if the post is selected (including comments)
As usual, any comments, criticisms, suggestions (and the inevitable complaints) please add them below.
Well done and thank you. This seems very good.
This is excellent. I just tried a 3 term search which took me directly to something I’ve been trying (and failing) to find for ages.
It would be great to be able to search for words that are “solutions” only rather than words used within the blog or comments sections, but I imagine that may be difficult.
Thanks Ken.
This is better. But could it be better still?
A search for, say, EASTER SUNDAY brings many results containing EASTER, and many containing SUNDAY. So if there are any for EASTER SUNDAY, one has to trawl through all the 14 (in this case) pages to find it. (It may be, of course, that there are no results for such a phrase.)
The question is, are results for multi-word searches always going to be among a forest of results for all the component words, or can a mechanism be found (such as EASTER+SUNDAY) to limit results to the sought phrase only?
That would be better still!
Cheers
PB
paul b at #3 – use “” around the phrase (as with Go-ogle)
“easter sunday” returns just one page of posts with that phrase…it doesn’t seem to be case sensitive…”EasTer Sunday” returns the same results…
@paul b You need to search for “easter sunday” including the quotes to get the phrase
Thanks mcr
Thanks mcr & Lin
Used it today. Very quick and helpful. I like the highlighting.
It used to sort backwards, so you could search on the last three digits of the number. Now I have to type the full “29,740”. Sigh!
Hmm… I see what you mean (though I don’t understand the “backwards” bit)
I’ll contact the developer and see if there’s a potential solution.
I take ‘backwards’ to mean most recent first, which it still does – when searching for words, anyway.
I usually only used the search facility to find crosswords by a particular setter. So if I put in Rosa Klebb (without quotation marks) I would be directed to all Rosa Klebb’s crosswords. Now I am guided to all blog posts that contain those two words. How can I tweak the search facility just to get the crosswords?
@12 Is this something you used to be able to do?
Sorry – I misread your comment. As per mc_rapper67 (above), search for “Rosa Klebb” (including the quotes)
@9
Try again, please
I think either you have fixed the sort order, or I was mistaken. At any rate, searching for “743” finds 29,743 rather quickly. Many thank!
I can’t search anything using the search bar now, it just loads then goes back to the main screen 🙁
I have to search the exact crossword I need in google search to find it.
@16
What device/browser are you using?
A welcome up-plus – many thanks.
(I have never before seen ‘and’ used as a verb. How useful! Now to introduce it into a conversation…)