Torsten Landsiedel

This plugin modifies the native wordpress search function to ignore block names in post and page content.
With this plugin activated the unexpected search results are fixed which are reported in <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/3739" rel="nofollow ugc">#3739</a> and in <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56294" rel="nofollow ugc">#56294</a>
Works only for MySQL 8.0.4+ and MariaDB 10.0.5+

Ignore HTML and shortcodes in search

Modifies the native search to ignore HTML markup (block editor comments) and shortcodes

WebberZone

Ajay

Supercharge your WordPress site search with <a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Search</a> – a powerful replacement for the default WordPress search engine that delivers more relevant results and a richer search experience.
Better Search gives you complete control over your site’s search results. Fine-tune relevance, search across different fields and post types, track popular queries, and customise the output — all without writing a single line of code.
Make your search more intuitive and engaging with a search heatmap of popular queries, display results as users type with AJAX Live Search, and tailor the look to your theme with custom templates and styles.
Built with performance in mind, Better Search includes its own caching system and works smoothly with popular caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. It also features a profanity filter and is translation-ready for global use.
Here are some of the main features of Better Search:
<ul>
<li>Automatic: Just activate the plugin and enjoy better search results right away</li>
<li>Seamless integration: No need to edit any code or create custom search templates</li>
<li>Relevance: Sort the results by relevance or date, and assign different weights to title and content</li>
<li>Control the results: Search within title, content, excerpt, meta fields, authors, tags and other taxonomies and comments</li>
<li>Popular searches: Show a heatmap of the most popular searches on your site, either as a widget or a shortcode</li>
<li>AJAX Live Search: Show search results as you type in any search form on your site</li>
<li>Customisation: Use your own template file and CSS styles for the ultimate look and feel</li>
<li>Supports cache plugins: Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache</li>
<li>Profanity filter: Filter out any words that you don’t want to appear in search queries</li>
<li>Translation ready: Use the plugin in any language</li>
</ul>
If you want to improve your site search, download Better Search today and experience the difference for yourself.
<h3>Features in Better Search Pro</h3>
<a href="https://webberzone.com/plugins/better-search/pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Better Search Pro</a> gives you even more control and performance:
<ul>
<li>🔍 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/multisite-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Multisite Search</a></li>
<li>✨ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/fuzzy-matches/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fuzzy Matches</a></li>
<li>🎯 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#minimum-relevance-percentage-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Relevance Threshold</a></li>
<li>🔗 <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-settings-search/#search-post-slug-pro-only" rel="nofollow ugc">Search Post Slugs</a></li>
<li>⚙️ <a href="https://webberzone.com/support/knowledgebase/better-search-rest-api/" rel="nofollow ugc">REST API Integration</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>MySQL FULLTEXT indices</h3>
Better Search adds the following MySQL FULLTEXT indices to the <code>wp_posts</code> table:
<ul>
<li><code>post_content</code></li>
<li><code>post_title</code></li>
<li><code>(post_title, post_content)</code></li>
</ul>
On multisite, these are added to each blog upon activation. These indices power the relevance-based search and are required for full functionality.
<h3>Contribute</h3>
Better Search is also available on <a href="https://github.com/WebberZone/better-search" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. If you’ve got some cool feature you’d like to implement into the plugin or a bug you’ve been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request.
<h3>Plugins by WebberZone</h3>
Better Search is one of the many plugins developed by WebberZone. Check out our other plugins:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/contextual-related-posts/" rel="ugc">Contextual Related Posts</a> – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/top-10/" rel="ugc">Top 10</a> – Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/knowledgebase/" rel="ugc">Knowledge Base</a> – Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-all/" rel="ugc">WebberZone Snippetz</a> – The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress to create and manage custom HTML, CSS or JS code snippets</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoclose/" rel="ugc">Auto-Close</a> – Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site</li>
</ul>

Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress

Better Search replaces the default WordPress search with a better search engine that gives contextual results sorted by relevance.

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