Nobody loves the native search

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July 3, 2024

You can search on the frontend and on the backend of WordPress, but this search is … simple.

It is just a full text SQL search. It lacks many features, like highlighting, synonyms, phrase search, etc. And many page builders, even the block editor, create more problems.

The search doesn’t work at all or there are too many “false positive” search results.

Let’s take a deep dive and find out what is broken and how to fix it!

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WordCamp Europe 2024 53

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Torsten Landsiedel 18

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English 10706

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