Title: [Plugin: Search Everything] Search multiple terms Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Search Everything] Search multiple terms * [deadhippo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadhippo/) * (@deadhippo) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/) * I would like to be able to get results for multiple term searches. Will this feature be added? * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [adige72](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adige72/) * (@adige72) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048724) * This would be great for me too! * I found a code that should be modified in order to show posts instead of echoing text. Have a look at that topic, it might be good starting point for developers: * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/searcg-multiple-taxonomy-term?replies=1](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/searcg-multiple-taxonomy-term?replies=1) * Thread Starter [deadhippo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadhippo/) * (@deadhippo) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048725) * I switched over to the Relevanssi plugin. It works really well for taxonomies and seems to be updated regularly too. * [adige72](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adige72/) * (@adige72) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048726) * So you can get results for multiple term searches? * Thread Starter [deadhippo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadhippo/) * (@deadhippo) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048727) * Yes, I can. And there are cool options like show results with both terms or either terms and other relevancy options. Check it out. * [Rollike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollike/) * (@rollike) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048728) * Is it possible to pick the words from e tag cloud or list? * I would like the same search feature, but wan’t my readers to pick tags from a list is this possible? * Thread Starter [deadhippo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deadhippo/) * (@deadhippo) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048729) * I don’t really know what are asking but you should just test it. * [Rollike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rollike/) * (@rollike) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048730) * I have been tryin / testing this and several other plugins but have not had any luck finding a good solution… 🙁 But let me know if you see such a feature 🙂 thanks * [roaming_elephants](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roaming_elephants/) * (@roaming_elephants) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048750) * Hello there! * I am currently trying to do a similar thing, namely find a plug in which would pick up on all the relevant tags. I am using Media-Tags plug in to tag all my photos and media content. * Before I proceed, I must admit, I am relatively new to WordPress – I can cut and paste code where required but I really have no idea (yet) how to write my own. * Anyhow, I have tried Search Everything and it is one of the rare, brilliant and simple plug-ins that picks up on all my tags – so kudos! However, the issue with it is that it defaults to AND logic and therefore for multiple terms it often yields no results, i.e. if your search terms are X and Y, then it only yields results if it finds both terms within a post, attachment, etc. However, if all the terms are connected with OR operator (which is that vertical line “|”), then it performs, i.e. if you search for X | Y then you get a score. This is a bit annoying because not all of my site visitors know how to use boolean operators. * Does anyone know how this can be changed? * I have also tried Relevanssi, and it looks pretty cool for everything else except for custom tags (or at least I still haven’t figured out a way how to do this– if anyone knows, please let me know). * Cheerios! * [roaming_elephants](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roaming_elephants/) * (@roaming_elephants) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048751) * I’ve just found a great thread on this… see the following link, it seems as though the solutions is (almost) there… * [https://core.sproutventure.com/issues/1118](https://core.sproutventure.com/issues/1118) * [roaming_elephants](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roaming_elephants/) * (@roaming_elephants) * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048752) * Found the solution… see here: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-after-last-update-two-words-searches-dont-work-with-tags?replies=9](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-after-last-update-two-words-searches-dont-work-with-tags?replies=9) * The key appears to be in replacing the line 197 of the search-everything.php file: * $where = str_replace( “)))”, “)$searchQuery))”, $where ); * with the following line: * $where = str_replace( “)) “, “)$searchQuery) “, $where ); * This seems to be working for me now. * [shauny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shauny/) * (@shauny) * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048760) * I tried the fix above but there is still a problem. * If I have a custom field called “colour” and a value of “red”, and a custom field called “material” and a value “cotton” then searching for [red cotton] shows nothing. * Also if the title of the post is “Shirt” and I search [red shirt] nothing is returned. * It needs to mix together all the custom fields before performing the search, but it seems it does not. Is there a fix for this? Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: Search Everything] Search multiple terms’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/search-everything_242529.svg) * [Search Everything](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-everything/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-everything/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-everything/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-everything/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-everything/reviews/) * 11 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [shauny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shauny/) * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-search-everything-search-multiple-terms/#post-2048760) * Status: not resolved