Hi, sorry another quick question
Is there a way to make the wordpress search results better? Let's take the example 'leather dress' if I search for that with $config_useFullText I get Showing: 1 to 40 of 67252 (hmm), as you would expect, 99% of those are not leather dresses - the first product in the results is 'White Lace Sheath Short Cocktail Dres Wedding Guest Dress Milanoo' - not very leathery!
If I change this to $config_useFullText, the same query then yields just 112 results, which is much better, however, if I then search for 'Leather Dresses' under this condition I get just 4 results, all of which have Dresses in the name.
My question, then, is how can I set wordpress up to search for Dresses & Dress or Skirts & Skirt etc without pulling in 50,000 unrelated terms.
I read up on your site and you hint a lot at Boolean search. I tried this for the normal installation but didn't see any improvement in the results
Any pointers would be great, please
Hi, still no luck. If I have $config_useFullText=True I get Showing: 1 to 40 of 67781 if I have it $config_useFullText=False I get 6 results - all of which have leather dresses in the name. If I search for just leather dresses, I have 81 items.
Hi,
The FULLTEXT search already adds singulars for plurals simply ending in "s", so with $config_useFullText enabled a search for "denim skirts" would be expanded to "denim skirts skirt".
However, this wouldn't work for "leather dresses" as the query would be expanded to "leather dresses dresse" but for a niche site, if it would be manageable to create a lookup array of plurals to their correct singular version that would be straight forward to implement.
To give this a go for "dresses" > "dress", edit pto_search.php and look for the following code beginning at line 192:
foreach($words as $word){
if (substr($word,-1)=="s")
{
$newWords[] = substr($word,0,-1);
}
}
...and REPLACE with:
foreach($words as $k => $word){
$words[$k] = strtolower($word);
}
$singulars = array(
"dresses" => "dress"
);
foreach($words as $word)
{
if (isset($singulars[$word]))
{
$newWords[] = $singulars[$word];
}
elseif (substr($word,-1)=="s")
{
$newWords[] = substr($word,0,-1);
}
}
To add additional translations to the $singulars array, simply add "plural" => "singular" pairs as required, separated by commas.
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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