Hi,
I see the issue now, it is not the ‘&’ character, but the apostrophe.
Searching for:
M&M’s
..returns results, but searching:
M&M's
..does not. It’s a different apostrophe character. Assuming that every apostrophe is stored like that, I would suggest this custom code then:
add_filter('asp_search_phrase_before_cleaning', 'asp_replace_characters', 10, 1);
add_filter('asp_query_args', 'asp_replace_characters', 10, 1);
function asp_replace_characters( $s ) {
$characters = "'"; // Type characters one after another
$replace_with = "’"; // Replace them with this (space by default)
if ( is_array($s) ) {
if ( isset($s['s']) && !$s['_ajax_search'] )
$s['s'] = str_replace(str_split($characters), $replace_with, $s['s']);
} else {
$s = str_replace(str_split($characters), $replace_with, $s);
}
return $s;
}