Synonyms not working on my setup for some reason

[SoSticky92Participant]

Hello, fantastic plugin.

Having some odd behavior with synonyms and getting the right results. Trying to get the search time “wife” to replicate the results of search term “wives”.

I saw your demo and corresponding documentation

food — meal, cuisine

and set mine up like this

wives — wife, wive

As i understand it, typing in “wife” will now bring the same results as typing in “wives”.

Except mine doesn’t show that.

I’ve attached 3 screen shots, one shows the wp-admin ajax search synonym settings, another the results from the synonym and the result from the original word. They should be the same?

I used a completely random synonym “catfish” to try and get the same results as “wives” but it shows results for “wife”.

So I type “catfish” and see results for search term “wife”. But in wp-admin ajax search -> synonym “wife” is set to be a synonym of “wives”.

I’ve disabled all plugins except WooCommerce and Ajax Search Pro and the issue remains. I also re-created the index table (many times) with no luck. Hoping is just user error on my end :).

Thanks for any help. I setup a clone site for you to check if you don’t mind. Login details added on the form.

Thank you!

• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by  SoSticky92.

[SoSticky92Participant]

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

Hi,

Thank you for all the details, I was able to log-in and check your configuration. I think the confusion is caused by that one extra result you get when you search “wives” – that is taxonomy term result, and the synonyms does not apply to them, as the index table is not used there.

As i understand it, typing in “wife” will now bring the same results as typing in “wives”.

Not exactly – because it is not the search keyword replaced, but additional keywords indexed as synonyms, that is different a bit. The keyword occurence of non-synonyms can be different. The overall results set should be almost identical, but the order can be different.

I tried the wife, wives, wifes combinations, but the results were identical, aside from “wives” – which also matches an additional taxonomy term as result, where the index table does not apply:
“wife”: https://i.imgur.com/Td1GfAd.png
“wifes”: https://i.imgur.com/dGNr5Qu.png
“wives”: https://i.imgur.com/7H5H9UJ.png

If you don’t want to show that extra woocommerce category as result, you can disable it here: https://i.imgur.com/jLwOHEN.png

Best,
Ernest Marcinko
If you like my products, don't forget to rate them on codecanyon :)

[SoSticky92Participant]

Hi Ernest,

Thanks for the detailed reply. I can figure a workaround, no worries.

Keep up the great work.

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[Ernest MarcinkoKeymaster]

You cannot access this content. Best,
Ernest Marcinko
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