Title: Search problems
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Search problems

 *  [snoogly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoogly/)
 * (@snoogly)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/)
 * I’m currently building a site which will use search results as a means of navigation.
   However, the search function doesn’t seem to be behaving as well as I’d hoped.
 * For example this post:[http://elpweb.com/WPsandbox/core-building-speaking-1/](http://elpweb.com/WPsandbox/core-building-speaking-1/)
 * It includes the text “Taught in Spring on Monday period 3”, yet when I enter 
   that text into the search box (including the quotes) I get ‘Nothing found’:
 * [http://elpweb.com/WPsandbox/?s=%22Taught+in+Spring+on+Monday+period+3%22](http://elpweb.com/WPsandbox/?s=%22Taught+in+Spring+on+Monday+period+3%22)
 * What am I doing wrong? Is there a maximum number of characters allowed in the
   search function? 🙁

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 *  Thread Starter [snoogly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoogly/)
 * (@snoogly)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/#post-4392855)
 * Small bump here …
 * If someone could help with this I’d be very happy!
 * Is there a character limit for a WP exact phrase (“…”) search? If so, is there
   a plugin which gets around this limitation?
 * Thanks.
 *  [J M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiphopinenglish/)
 * (@hiphopinenglish)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/#post-4392856)
 * People say a lot of things about the WordPress search functionality. I would 
   recommend taking a look at using Google to handle your search for you. There 
   are many articles on this available.
 *  Thread Starter [snoogly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snoogly/)
 * (@snoogly)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/#post-4392859)
 * Thanks for that. Are there any particularly recommended plugins that can do the
   job?
 *  [J M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiphopinenglish/)
 * (@hiphopinenglish)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/#post-4392887)
 * There are a few plugins (if you search WordPress plugins). I haven’t used any
   myself. I followed a guide or two that I found myself, on how to do it manually.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [J M](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiphopinenglish/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-problems-2/#post-4392887)
 * Status: not resolved

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