Searching using double quotes

[Steve Strutt]

Hi Ernest, searching using double quotes to delimit a text string is not working for me. If I search without using double quotes, e.g. >>Miss White<<, both terms are searched for and a number of results retrieved, see MissWhite.jpg below, which shows one result where the two search terms are definitely adjacent.

If I put the search terms in double quotes e.g. >>”Miss White”<< no results are returned as in the doublequotesearch.jpg image below. The contents of the search phrase field seem to suggest that the whole phrase, including the quotes is being searched for.

Strangely if the quoted phrase is part of a taxonomy term assigned to a page, the result is returned as expected.

The plugin is at 4.27.3, so includes the fix for the earlier double quote issue.

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

Are you using the index table engine or the regular engine? With the index table engine the quote search won’t do much, as not the whole text is searched but the extracted keywords – therefore adjacent keywords can’t be detected in any way.

If the regular engine is used, then it is possible that the keywords are likely wrapped in HTML tags or something similar to that, therefore it no longer matches.

[Steve Strutt]

Yes using the index engine. OK so not supported.

Thanks

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