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Forum search function…best practises?

RP Robert Provencher
Robert Provencher
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Member since Nov 2012
169 posts
Feb 13, 2017 · 1:02 pm · Edited

I never liked the search function in simplepress. Truth is, I never like the search function on any forum software. It seems universal.

Maybe I’m doing searches wrong. Not that I personally use it, since I know my content and forum almost inside out, but occasionally a member will ask how to use it, since they seem to get bad results.

I go in and test, and indeed, get bad results.

So, with that being said, is there a post, article, strategy for getting results using the simplepress search function?

thanks

Rob

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YS Yellow Swordfish
Yellow Swordfish
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Member since Nov 2008
16,437 posts
Feb 13, 2017 · 1:15 pm

I think that this is an impossible question to answer. I also think the search advanced options are rather self-explanatory.

All a search can do is match a word, words or phrase to content in your database. And it performs this task with absolute accuracy.

I will say that if you are using the basic old search then it is a little short on detail. I would recommend our advanced search plugin which will give a little detail of the post where the match is found and can also include searching the blog posts.