Title: Partial result
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Partial result

 *  [Chrisjohnson57387](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisjohnson57387/)
 * (@chrisjohnson57387)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-result/)
 * I am trying to make the plugin match partial results, which it is not doing.
 * Such as searching “folder” and receiving results with the word “folders”
    or “
   focus, returning searches with the words “focusing”.
 * Is there something I am doing wrong, or do I need some other snippet of code 
   to do this?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search/)

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 *  Plugin Author [WebberZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webberzone/)
 * (@webberzone)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-result/#post-6709021)
 * It’s not something you’re doing wrong. It is a limitation of the fulltext index
   of mySQL uses that the plugin uses.
 * It’s also something that I’ve been working on to retrieve better results. To 
   be frank, I haven’t been successful yet.
 * In theory words like folder* would work in BOOLEAN mode. You might need a snippet
   of code to make the results a bit better for your site depending on what search
   terms are typically used but you might need to look at what the search result
   is generated and tap in with some filters.

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 * Last reply from: [WebberZone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webberzone/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/partial-result/#post-6709021)
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