Book Search Demo

This Book Search page uses Site Search ONE WordPress Plugin

Site Search ONE WordPress Plugin creates a search page in your default layout, it was edited in the WordPress Block editor to add a column containing a Paragraph block alongside the Shortcode block.

It demonstrates how WordPress Custom Fields can be used to filter search results.

This demo returns all book pages by default; you could enter a search manually to narrow the search like – year published contains 1591 to find all books first published in 1591, but it is generally quicker to click on the Fields Filter button (1), enter 1591 in the Year Published field, then click Apply!

The Book Search demo has several Custom Fields:

• Act (try 1, 2 or 3)
• Scene (try 1,2 or 3)
• Genre (comedies, tragedies, histories)
• Title (e.g. king will limit the search to the King Henry 6th play)
• Year Published (currently the demo plays have published years of 1591, 1594, 1597 only)
• Author (Shakespeare. Not included in the filter drop down since all the plays are by Shakespeare; a search of author contains shakespeare will return all results)

Other Search Features

Stemming is on by default so that a search for officer for example will find pages with officers or office also, you can also apply stemming to a single word by appending a tilde like this  officer~  matches officer, officers, office

Synonyms uses the Wordnet Thesaurus, if you apply this option, a search on  petty will find pages with  little  or  small  for example. To apply synonyms to a single word append an ampersand (&) like this little&

Soundex is a phonetic algorithm for indexing names by sound, as pronounced in English. It also useful if you are not sure of the spelling of a word, but will give a very broad search and may return unrelated words. Example #antifolas will find pages mentioning Antipholus.