Problem with searches with numbers

Relevanssi doesn’t search inside words. When the product code is “MVH502AH”, you can find it when you search for “MVH502” or “502AH”, but not just for “502”.

You have a couple of options here. You can enable inside-word matching by adding this to your theme functions.php:

add_filter( 'relevanssi_fuzzy_query', 'rlv_match_inside_words' );
function rlv_match_inside_words( $query ) {
  return "(relevanssi.term LIKE '%#term#%') ";
}

Now “502” will find these products. Note that this will increase the number of garbage results in general.

The other option is to add a filter that would look for product codes in the titles and index “MVH502AH” as “MVH502AH 502”. This would make these products easier to find with just the number.

Hello Mikko,

Thanks a lot, this seems to work pretty well

If I understand that right if I just one to apply this on a numbers search I only need to do a preg_match with the $query param to apply the LIKE or not right?

Thanks!

Yes. This should work:

add_filter( 'relevanssi_fuzzy_query', 'rlv_match_inside_words', 10, 2 );
function rlv_match_inside_words( $query, $term ) {
  if ( is_numeric( $term ) ) {
    return "(relevanssi.term LIKE '%#term#%') ";
  }
  return $query;
}