Title: Search Function Algorithm
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search Function Algorithm

 *  [aleyda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aleyda/)
 * (@aleyda)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-algorithm/)
 * Hello,
 * I am new to WordPress and I would like to learn about the power, logic and extensibility
   of its search system. I have seen in some posts and webs that there are plugins
   around to enable to search all the content of the webs, even addresses… but I
   haven’t seen one where it is explain the algorithm used…
 * I have also performed some searches in WordPress powered websites and I have 
   only seen that the results are ordered by date… not relevancy… and I would like
   to know if this can be done with it.
 * Thanks for your replies and help!..

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 *  [ThaiClimate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thaiclimate/)
 * (@thaiclimate)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-function-algorithm/#post-528479)
 * As a beginner, I too would be interested as well to know what happens between
   submitting the search content and the results being displayed. Where is the function(
   code) and how might it be modified? I’m still stumbling around trying to find
   where to alter the default response when a search is unsuccessful: “Sorry, no
   posts matched your criteria, please try and search again.”

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 * [system](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/system/)

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