Hi,
Thank you very much for the details, it helps a lot!
Okay, so the issue on the screenshot is actually a yet unknown bug in the highlighter script, luckily it has nothing to do with the search. When you search for “break of day” (with apostrophes), it is automatically considered an exact match phrase. So instead of individual keyword matches, the plugin looks for a match exactly for “break of day” as a single phrase.
The matches are actually correct, they are all matching that phrase, it’s only the highligher that’s malfunctioning as it tries to highlight a match with the quotes included, while it should ignore it. It’s only a visual bug, the matches are correct.
I have made a bug report on this, it will be resolved within the upcoming release.
The number of results on the live drop-down list and the results page can be individually set here.
By default the live search displays 10, the results page up to 50.
Oversimplified Matches: when searching “break of day” with the quotes, it is definitely matching only items with that exact phrase in it. You can try this by searching “bread of day” and you will get no results as there is no exact match. The seemingly unrelated matches do match somewhere – either in the title, content or within any other selected field. If you let me know which matches seem unexpected, I can probably tell where it matched.
Collapsing Results: While I usually don’t recommend doing this, there is a feature which is capable of grouping results by title instead of the actual object IDs. You can turn it on here.
Scroll For More Issue: Make sure that the actual scroll trigger is enabled here. That will do the trick 🙂