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We use a lot of acronyms in our industry so the four character minimum on search terms makes many of our key topics impossible to search for - can this limit be adjusted? I understand there may be a performance hit but I'm prepared to make that compromise for a useful search function.
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I am sorry to say that this is not something that is under either Simple:Press or WordPress control. It is a setting on your mySQL database and to change it will need the help of your hosting support.
To be perfectly honest I have no idea whether they will be willing to change it or not. I would have thought they would be with the right argument but I would be interested to know how they respond to the request.
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if you have access to your mysql ini file on your server you could change it as well... more info: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refma.....uning.html
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Thanks, I understand we can't leverage a FULLTEXT index with strings shorter than the mySQL minimum, but that doesn't make searching for shorter strings impossible, just slow. Wordpress has no problem searching for three letter words - can Simple:Press do something similar, as fallback maybe?
== UPDATE ==
After research I can see that by editing the query directly...
/forum/?search=1&value=ABC
...the search works fine with strings of any length, including words shorter than the mySQL minimum. So the only thing preventing a search for short words is restrictive js validation. Unfortunately the script that does that (sp-forum.js) is obfuscated - is there a hook to tweak the validation? Or a way to remove it altogether? We really don't need min-length validated at all.
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You know i had completely forgotten that we had removed our fulltext index on post content. So you are quite right.
It's going to need a little coding to get it up and working as it should but it will be done ASAP
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Thanks Yellow, that's great news. Should I watch this thread for updates?
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It will be in the next update to Simple:Press which is due for release at the same time as WordPress 4.5 which is currently at Beta 4 and seems to be progressing nicely.
We are imposing a limit of 3 characters by default as really all recommendations are never to search on less. But this can be overridden by a user if they really feel they need to.
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Yellow Swordfish said
We are imposing a limit of 3 characters...But this can be overridden by a user...
Exactly how?
I'm excited to hear this is possible and would like to explain, since we're getting a lot of new members with three legged cats. I just confirmed that I can search for "cat" but presume the results also return words containing cat like catapult, catacomb or truncate.
FYI: The warning notice only appeared when I searched for " cat " (including the spaces), but the search still returned 7,750+ results—hence my presumption above.
I thought I saw a note somewhere about wildcard characters that could be used in the search query, but can't find that now.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
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you have to adjust your mysql settings... something like this (dont worry about 5.7 ref): http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refma.....uning.html
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oh wait... lol... was doing the full text search thing like Andy...oops...
in your theme spFunctions.php file, just add this with desired value:
define('SPSEARCHMIN', 3);of course, be sure you have a child theme or a custom theme and not editing one of ours...
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