Exact search matching

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Last updated by Luo Yang 6 years, 5 months ago.

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July 29, 2018 at 12:06 pm #958271

Pat

Hello,

I'm coming back to an old ticket : https://toolset.com/forums/topic/search-on-term-field/

Some users have made some remarks that the Views gives a result even if the entire text is not reflecting one of the post titles (for example, if you enter an single letter, the first post with a title having this letter will be displayed).

Is there a way to enforce the code in order to ensure only exact matches will be displayed?

Regards
Pat

July 30, 2018 at 3:48 am #958686

Luo Yang

Dear Pat,

There isn't such a built-in feature within Views plugin, you might need to consider custom codes, for example, use filter hook wpv_filter_query to trigger a PHP function
https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views-filters/#wpv_filter_query

In this PHP function to setup the query as "Exact search matching", see similar thread:
https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/177183/make-a-wp-query-search-match-exactly-the-search-term