Searching in wordpress. Is there a "NOT keyword" feature ?

  • Resolved Sabinou

    (@sabinou1)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hello !

    Sorry to ask here for a typical “why don’t you google it !” question, I just couldn’t find answers, the search keywords that came to my mind were too generic and didn’t yield a page answering my question.

    I was wondering if there was a way to search a wordpress blog, with its standard search feature, for something like [keyword1 keyword2 -keyword3], in common search engine syntax.
    In the above example, if I input that in wordpress, what will happen for the searchign will be OR keyword1 OR keyword2 OR keyword 3.
    While I would liked it to be a NOT keyword 3.

    Do you see the idea ?

    I guess it’s just not possible, but maybe wordpress is using its own syntax and there’s a way to tell “don’t keep results when there is that keyword” feature hidden somewhere, who knows !

    Thanks if you can tell me ??

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Is there a “NOT keyword” feature ?

    Nope. It does not exist here. ??

    You didn’t write this but I thought I would skip ahead.

    Is search on the list from years ago as something that needs improvement and are the moderators all aware that search in these forums is awful, horrendous, <INSERT PITHY ADJECTIVE HERE>?

    Yes. ??

    Sabinou, there are some good plugins to improve the search functionality. I personally like Relevanssi, which has a good free version and a supported paid version.

    Thread Starter Sabinou

    (@sabinou1)

    Thank you for your answers, Jan and Patty !

    I’m not hostile towards search plugins, but I wanted to hope it could be part of the vanilla WordPress, a default feature. Without adding new items to a blog, and trusting it would be possible to use on every wordpress blog on the internet.

    (In this regard, there’s always this feeling of glory when you visit a blog supposed to be professional but whose theme is so bad you see no search field, to simply append ?s=keyword1+keyword do, and the like ^^).

    Well, now, case closed, I know.

    Thank you very much again ??

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