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When I try to search for terms with spaces, such as "lord of the rings", it returns all of my posts. However, if I just type "lord", it returns results.

Any ideas what would be causing this?

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Chances are it's searching using the 'OR' operand, which for will pull up everything that has those common words - 'of the'. There are a number of alternate search plugins for Wordpress - we've had great results (pun intended) using Relevanssi.

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Relevanssi is really good. +1 You can set stop words in its settings too. – toscho♦ Mar 28 '12 at 17:31
Does Relevanssi affect admin search as well? – Kyle Mar 28 '12 at 17:32
It does, but I'm not sure how much it does there to be honest. I know it affects the 'posts and pages' searching, but beyond that I can't really tell you a whole lot. Mikko - the dev - is extremely helpful, but isn't so good at documentation (his words, not mine). – SickHippie Mar 28 '12 at 18:00

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