Boolean Search and metadata search

  • Dear Author,
    Thanks for your great plugin! I have two question, 1) Is there an ability to search using Boolean operators? 2) Is it possible to search another fields of a post or another post-like objects, for example tags or any other defined meta-data?

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  • Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    1) Yes if you activate the BOOLEAN mode from the settings page – https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-boolean.html

    2) You can do this, but it isn’t as straight forward as you have to join the meta tables and then do an approximate search within the meta field.
    Here is an example of searching the author meta field with Better Search which overrides the matching functionality

    https://gist.github.com/ajaydsouza/767215093a24bafb903a

    You’ll need to adapt this as per your site.

    Thread Starter keramatfar

    (@keramatfar)

    By Boolean, i means some thing like advanced search that in user can use different fields for different data fields and combine them.

    Plugin Author Ajay

    (@ajay)

    Not directly within the plugin at this time. The data fields that are searched through are limited to content and post title.

    The plugin is fully extendable but needs to be done on a site by site basis which gets quite complicated.

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