Make the Search "not to" index/scan the listing description.

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October 14, 2019 at 5:17 pm #513080

Manfred Van Ursel
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In GD V1 and I suppose in V2 as well, we have a “way too sensitive” search, and if we casually include a word like “food” on a listing description that is not related to food (for example using the expression “food for thought”), it will appear on a “food-related” search.

My client feraked out because of this.

How can we tell the search tool not to search by description but only by title, tags and categories?

Thanks,

October 15, 2019 at 6:40 am #513136

Alex Rollin
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Hello,

as far as I know this is not possible without a customization but I will check with the developers in case there is a workaround. Thanks for your patience while we look into it.

A

October 15, 2019 at 9:10 am #513159
Kiran
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Hi Manfred,

Add following PHP snippet to don’t search in post description.
```
/**
 * Skip searching in post description.
 */
function gd_snippet_191015_search_content_where( $content_where ) {
	$content_where = '';
	
	return $content_where;
}
add_filter( 'geodir_search_content_where', 'gd_snippet_191015_search_content_where', 20, 1 );
```
Regards,
Kiran
October 16, 2019 at 1:08 am #513291

Manfred Van Ursel
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This is awesome, thanks!!

October 16, 2019 at 8:54 pm #513484

Manfred Van Ursel
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Is the search cached / indexed somewhere? As we seem to stumble upon the same search results but we added this code. Thanks,

October 17, 2019 at 4:21 am #513509

Kiran
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Hi Manfred,

Provide example urls of search in which you see same results.

Kiran

October 17, 2019 at 9:05 pm #513610

Manfred Van Ursel
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October 18, 2019 at 11:25 am #513688

Kiran
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Hi Manfred,

Where did you added snippet that provided at here? #513159

Kiran

October 18, 2019 at 11:29 pm #513787

Manfred Van Ursel
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I added it to my functions.php (Supreme child theme).

October 21, 2019 at 1:30 pm #514079

Kiran
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Hi Manfred,

I checked functions.php file in supreme directory theme and there is no snippet found there.

Kiran

October 24, 2019 at 4:53 am #514507

Manfred Van Ursel
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I added it by FTP and it worked thanks.
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