Fuzzy search not working as expected

By default, Relevanssi fuzzy search matches the beginning and the end of a word. If you want total wildcard search, you can use relevanssi_fuzzy_query filter to fix it.

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

Thank you for looking at this for me. It works as I want it to now.

Hi Mikko , thank you for the code, gets me a bit closer.

What i’m trying to do is get ‘cats’ to show the same result as ‘cat’.

Is that possible?

Warm regards,
George

Phpdudes, what you need is a stemmer that removes the ‘s’ from the end of the plural forms. There’s a simple stemmer included in Relevanssi Premium, and building one yourself is not particularly tricky, you can use relevanssi_remove_punctuation filter to process every word as it’s being indexed.

Thank you for the reply, great idea with the stemmer but i thin it would still not sort it entirely.

Basically what i’m trying to accomplish is
‘abc’ and ‘abcdf’ should show the same resuls (or abc should show more results cause you can find ‘abcx’

Basically even if a word is misspelled it would still find the results.

For example if you search “Scarf” you get 22 results but if you search “scarv” only 2 results and if someone misspells it as in “scarfe” you get no results)`

here is the testing site :

https://bit.ly/1tgKdNg

With fuzzy search enabled, “abc” will find the same results as “abcdf”, but there’s no scenario where “abcdf” will find the same results as “abc”, and I don’t quite know how that would be possible in a reasonable way.

What comes to “scarf” vs “scarv”, to fix search like that, you’d pretty much need to cover all individual cases manually. Relevanssi just doesn’t have that kind of language processing understanding.