Is is possible to set Relevanssi in a way that it would return only perfect matches for queries up to 3 characters, but any words that starts with the queried term if it has 4 characters or more?
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Yes, but it requires a bit of code.
add_filter( 'relevanssi_term_where', 'rlv_three_exact_four_fuzzy', 10, 2 );
function rlv_three_exact_four_fuzzy( $where, $term ) {
if ( relevanssi_strlen( $term ) <= 3 ) {
$where = "(relevanssi.term = '$term')";
}
return $where;
}Add this to your site and set Relevanssi to use partial matching in the searching settings. Now searches with search terms that are at most three characters long will use exact matching.
The way this works is simple. The relevanssi_term_where filter hook lets you adjust the part of the MySQL query that includes the search term. If the search term is short, instead of doing the default partial search query, the function replaces that with the exact match query (relevanssi.term = 'term').