[Resolved] Search with just a few letters entered

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[Aman Motwane]

I’m not sure if I’m understanding this right:

When I search on a post title, I don’t need to put in the full word; the Search will find everything pertaining to even if a few letters are entered. Is this correct?

Is this same thing possible with other fields that are not the post title? If yes, how do I do this? Thanks

[Nigel]

Hi Aman

You haven't specified where you are searching. If you are using standard WordPress search (e.g. your theme provides a search bar) that will normally search the post title and the post body, and, yes, it will search partial words if you enter just a few letters.

If you create a Views custom search and include a text search filter then you can specify whether to search just the post title or both the post title and post body: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/filtering-views-for-a-specific-text-string-search/

If you want to include other fields, i.e. custom fields, in the search, then for that you would need to add the Relevanssi plugin and set it up to work with Toolset, as described here: https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/searching-texts-custom-fields-views-relevanssi/

[Aman Motwane]

Thanks, Nigel, that worked like charm!