Including "&" in search results

Strange, indeed –?& and S& should not work in the first place, but S&C should.

So you’ve added the code in that forum thread and have rebuilt the index? What exactly do you mean with the “I have search setup to search terms of a Custom Tax”?

You can see the search results for “S&” here. But you’ll notice “S&C” does’t work.

Products = A custom post type
Manufacturers = Custom tax to the Products CPT

Yes, added the ampersand code.

Search template looks like this:

// get what we're searching for
$searchRequest = $_REQUEST['s'];

$args = array(
    'search' => $searchRequest,
	'hide_empty' => 0, // false, show empties
);
$taxonomy = 'manufacturer';
$termsResult = get_terms($taxonomy, $args);

<?php if ( !empty($termsResult)) : ?>
	<?php  foreach ( $termsResult as $term ) { ?>

<h2><?php echo $term->name ?></h2>
<?php }
else: ?>
... and the rest of the not found

Searching “S&C” brings back an empty array for some reason.

Thanks for you help.

That get_terms() search has nothing to do with Relevanssi. There you probably want to make sure that you have actual & and not some kind of URL encoding in $searchRequest.

Well, that last suggestion led my to my answer, thanks.

I added

$new_text = str_replace('&', '& amp;', $searchRequest);  // <- no spaces in the & amp;

to right above get_terms after the search request to change any ‘&’ to ‘&’.

So, my final get_terms query looks like this:

// get what we're searching for
$searchRequest = $_REQUEST['s'];
$new_text = str_replace('&', '& amp;', $searchRequest); // <- no spaces in the & amp;

$args = array(
    'search' => $new_text,
	'hide_empty' => 0, // false, show empties
);
$taxonomy = 'manufacturer';
$termsResult = get_terms($taxonomy, $args);