gnaka08

<p>The plugin gives search boxes on the blog additional functionalities for operators among search words, such as Google’s. The other supported operators than the standard ‘and’ search are OR, -(exclude), *(any string) and parenthesis.</p>
<p>The plugin contains <a href="https://github.com/yonaka/SearchWordsSQL" rel="nofollow ugc">SearchWordsSQL</a> and <a href="http://genericons.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Genericons</a> libraries. These are subject to the respective licenses. If you want to redistribute this plugin with Genericons, you may have to comply with GPLv2 (not lesser).</p>
<h3>Search Operators</h3>
<ul>
<li>Specify words separated by space(s) to search posts containing all the words.</li>
<li>Quote a string containing space(s) by double quotes to search posts which contain phrase(s) consisted of those words only in the order.</li>
<li>Insert an asterisk (*) in a word without any space to search posts which contain the word(s) regardless of what the part of the asterisk is.</li>
<li>Prepend a minus sign (-) without any space to a word to search posts which do not contain the word(s).</li>
<li>Specify two words separated by ” OR ” in upper case to search posts which contain either of words or both. This takes precedence over words separated by space(s) only.</li>
<li>You can combine the above expression. Use a pair of parenthesis to group expressions if needed.</li>
</ul>
<p>It searches in the bodies and titles of posts in a case-insensitive manner.</p>


Compound Searcher

Lets search boxes on your blog support search operators like Google's.

Mateusz Gbiorczyk

<p>This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.</p>
<p>Everything works automatically, no need to add any additional code. The plugin does not create a search results page, but modifies the SQL database query to make your search engine work better.</p>
<p>Additionally you can search for whole phrases instead of each single word of phrase. As a result, search will be more accurate than before.</p>
<h4>New search core</h4>
<p>We modified the code of search engine. Content search is now faster by about 75% <em>(depending on the level of complexity of searched phrase)</em>!</p>
<h4>Support to the development of plugin</h4>
<p>We spend hours working on the development of this plugin. Technical support also requires a lot of time, but we do it because we want to offer you the best plugin. We enjoy every new plugin installation.</p>
<p>If you would like to appreciate it, you can <a href="https://ko-fi.com/gbiorczyk/?utm_source=acf-better-search&utm_medium=readme-content" rel="nofollow ugc">provide us a coffee</a>. <strong>If every user bought at least one, we could work on the plugin 24 hours a day!</strong></p>
<h4>Please also read the FAQ below. Thank you for being with us!</h4>


ACF: Better Search


Not only was the plugin author responsive in a timely manner, they also actually updated their code to allow for filtering in new options to potentially search through. This opens the door for other plugin authors that work with ACF Field types to automatically extend ACF Better Search on their own.



Working together to make awesome interoperable plugins for the win.


Responsive and help support


In the past, I've used pre_get_posts() to filter in some ACF fields to my searches. And, you know what they said about pre_get_posts(), if that's the solution to your problem, now you have 2 problems. This plugin has been immensely helpful in simplifying the process of adding ACF fields to search queries. Huge thanks!


Makes the complex simple


Hi guys! First of all: thank you for this plugin. It's a must if you use ACF.



...I switched from GUI defined ACF fields to PHP defined fields (trough the ACF export to PHP utility) and the plugin stopped working.



Fortunately I seen this thread: "Problem with search from imported fields (acf-json)" (sorry, WP don't allow links in reviews) and I activated the "Lite Mode": all worked again fine.



...I think you should detect it and advice your users, or at least explain it in the settings pane, because if my first testing was with the PHP fields, maybe I was discarded your great plugin.



Anyway: Thanks guys! Great plugin!!!


It's a must if you use ACF

This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

Compound Searcher vs ACF: Better Search