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Hi WP-Dreams support,
Is there a way to omit characters in a search?
This should only be applicable for the search within a custom field, _sku to be specific.Best regards…Rick
Hi Rick,
It depends on what exactly are you looking for. If you want to simply remove certain characters/words from the search phrase, before the search query is executed, then these knowledge base tutorials may help you:
– Replace or remove characters from search phrase
– Replace search keywords (whole words)There are also two options on the back-end, that allow excluding words (or even single characters), but I don’t recommend those for other than alphanumeric values. In case you need to remove special characters, use the custom code in the examples above.
Hi Ernest,
Probably a mission impossible 😉
The difficult part is the sku’s come from different suppliers. Some use spaces or dashes between characters and others don’t. If a visitor leaves out a space or dash the product can’t be found. Same problem of course if a space or dash is used when there’s none in the sku.Plus the search is a combined one for posts/pages as well…
Best regards…Rick
Hi Rick,
Actually, I believe there might be a solution to this – using the index table engine.
It may not solve every case, but I designed the indexing process to recognize certain special characters – and words with dashes and dash-like characters are indexed both as a whole, as well as without the dashes, as well as words separated by space where the dashes were.
I highly recommend trying that, it may do the trick to some degree:
– 1. Generating the index table
– 2. Enabling the index tableI hope this helps 🙂
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