Search Improvement

  • Resolved ekajuan

    (@ekajuan)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi, I’m using Listable theme. It uses wp job manager as the core to create listings. I use it as ad listings.

    I notice, the search result isn’t relevant.

    For example when I search for ‘motor’ (motorcycle) it shows listings mostly that are not about motorcycle. Even the listing that has no word ‘motor’ on the title or on the content appear on the first rows.

    Is there a way I can improve this relevancy.

    I’ve contacted my developer, and they said something, the way it works is designed by WP Job Manager developer and I should try to contact you for help.

    My site is https://dapur-uang.com

    Thank you.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-job-manager/

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  • Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    It does seem odd that those results are returned. It can be replaced by other plugins or themes, but our default functionality for keyword searches is here: https://github.com/Automattic/WP-Job-Manager/blob/9d2cc849f4364976012065a0f43e57538cfc74bc/wp-job-manager-functions.php#L158

    We search the title, the meta data for a post, the categories/tags for a post, and finally the post content, so motor is appearing *somewhere* for those posts (again assuming that function has been overridden elsewhere).

    Thread Starter ekajuan

    (@ekajuan)

    I tried to use twenty themes. But the result is still exactly the same. So the theme doesn’t override it. And I tried to delete the function you show me, but the search query still works (irrelevantly)

    My question:
    1. Is it the right function you gave me? Because if I delete it, it should throws error.
    2. How to override it.

    We have used SearchWP and FacetWP to overcome some of these problems. SearchWP does word stemming and weighting of terms and their location. I think this limitation is not with WP-Job-Manager but is with WordPress itself.

    Thread Starter ekajuan

    (@ekajuan)

    I’ve bought search and filter plugin from codedesign. But I don’t know how to override the functionality.

    FacetWP is too expensive for my pocket.

    Plugin Author Brandon Kraft

    (@kraftbj)

    Code Wrangler

    @ikanaspencer is right on that’s it is a WP limitation and options like that are the way to go.

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