[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #21638: Improve searching through posts

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Mon Aug 20 01:02:55 UTC 2012


#21638: Improve searching through posts
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 Reporter:  azaozz       |      Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Query        |    Version:
 Severity:  normal       |   Keywords:
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 Searching for a particular post in WordPress is a daunting task. It
 usually returns a lot of irrelevant matches and when there are several
 thousands posts, it's almost impossible to do.

 There have been many discussions, ideas, even couple of GSoC projects
 about improving that search, however there have been no significant
 improvements as the best methods are too complicated for inclusion in
 core.

 However there is one (low hanging/easy to do) thing that can improve
 search quality a lot, especially in the admin: separating the search by
 post_title and post_content.

 The current search looks in both title and content at the same time. For
 most places (custom menus, internal linking, attaching orphaned
 attachments, etc.) it makes sense to search through the titles before the
 content or even have an option so the user can exclude searching through
 the content completely.

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21638>
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