Title: WordPress search function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# WordPress search function

 *  [Gisha James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gjames/)
 * (@gjames)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-search-function/)
 * Is there any plugin/ any function that I can use to change the functioning of
   search. What I am looking for is , if I have to search for “Great tutorials”,
   if I simply enter – Great tutorials it will result all post with the words great
   and tutorials, but not the exact match.
 * If I add quotes, it will result in exact match. Is there any function or hook
   I can write to give exact match even if there are no quotes.
 * I have seen that if I edit wp-includes/query.php (where it checks If a search
   pattern is specified), it is possible. But editing core files is not recommended.
 * Any help is very much appreciated.
 * Thank you

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