jamesbn

Hi there, thanks so much for your reply.
Does this mean the “AND” option does not do anything?

Let’s say I had a website of old football reports.

There are over 100 professional teams in England.

I would have the name of each team as a tag in a taxonomy called TEAMS.

If somebody wanted to find all the old reports of “Manchester United” VS “Liverpool”.
The user would search Manchester United and Liverpool.

I would want the search result to show all games with BOTH Manchester United AND Liverpool.

If I used the OR option.
Then it would return all of the reports with the TAG Manchester United, including against all 100 of the other teams, and it would show all Liverpool including of of their games against 100 other teams. If they had each played all the other teams 10 times then there would be over 2000 results to look through just to find the ten relevant results.

There MUST be a way? Please help.

It would not e practical to write a tag for every single combination of teams playing each other.
1 VS 2
1 VS 3
1 VS 4
1 VS 5
…
1 VS 100

That’s 100 tags for the first team on the list.

Then
2 VS 1
2 VS 3
2 VS 4
…
2 VS 100

That’s another 100 tags,, for team 2 on the list.

And then do that for all 100 teams.

That’s 100 X 100 = TEN THOUSAND tags.

Above, you said:
AND control the relation between “BIKE” AND/OR “REPAIR” so a taxonomy term name should be “BIKE REPAIR” in order to match.

Doesn’t that explanation mean that AND and OR are both the same?

If I have to have “BIKE REPAIR” as a taxonomy term then isn’t it just the same as having exact match turned on?