Custom Fields LIKE/EXACTLY LIKE options does not work

[misha77Participant]

http://dress-rentals.info/ – is a test site.
I’m trying to filter my pages with cusom fields. I use Advanced Custom Fields plugin to create custom fields.

And i noticed that when i coose in Ajax Search Pro LIKE and OR options it does not work how it should be…
I give to may test page custom field SIZE and it is S, M, XL. But Ajax search still showing this page if i choose XS or L size.
Please see the screenshots.

I tryed to change theme, and to swich off all plugins.

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi!

Thank you very much for the details, it helped me a lot!

The problem there is that the ACF checkbox is a complex field, and is stored as an Object in the database, not as a simple text field. Like so:

a:3:{i:0;s:1:"L";i:1;s:2:"XL";i:2;s:1:"M";}

So exact matching won’t work, as the whole text should be entered. The non-exact matching is not working because for example typing “L” matches this string even if only “XL” is selected, because it’s a substring of it.

I have done some experiments and I have found a solution. To match any of these, the delimiters (double quotes) should be added to the values as well. In your case, you need to change them to:

"XS"||XS
"S"||S
"M"||M
"L"||L
"XL"||XL
"XXL"||XXL

So basically encapsulate every value with the code of the double quote string aka:

"

This did the trick on my test environment, and hopefully for you as well 🙂

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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