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  restaurantfastfood · Member · May 16, 2018 at 7:37 pm

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  Created products but have problem with search in plural
  Like I have a watch product
  The search is proper when it’s watch but the result is not available when it’s watches

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kosiew · Member · May 18, 2018 at 12:31 am

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  hi,

  Is your issue related to the search widget on your blog ?

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  restaurantfastfood · Member · May 18, 2018 at 6:46 am

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  Yes not able to get the results in plural form

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  kosiew · Member · May 18, 2018 at 10:00 am

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  hi,

  The search here is quite simple when compared to honest to goodness search engines. Search engines have massive amounts of algorithms to determine misspellings and whether an ending “s” is actually just part of the word, or whether it represents a plural version of a word. This takes massive amounts of storage space, and millions of lines of code.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/singular-vs-plural-in-searches/

  In short, the Search in WordPress will not be able to understand that Watches and Watch are related.

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  restaurantfastfood · Member · May 18, 2018 at 10:31 am

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  Wat can be done

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  kosiew · Member · May 18, 2018 at 1:08 pm

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  hi,

  Some alternatives that I can think of:

  1. in your individual posts, add a keywords section at the bottom and list words that you think are likely to be searched for

  2. install a Search plugin
  This plugin WP Extended Search https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/ can search more than just the text in your posts.
  If you are on a Business Plan, you can install the above plugin and then tag your posts with keywords.