My plugin for using REGEXP_REPLACE to optimize the search: https://wordpress.org/plugins/ignore-block-name-in-search/
Note
Please check your page builder if the native search still works!
Enfold, Avada, PageLayer, Beaver Builder, Elementor, Brizy, Divi
- Bricks ("Query Bricks data in search results" must be enabled)
- Breakdance (content is in a custom field called "breakdance_data" which is not searched by default)
- Nimble (content is in another custom post type)
At least 20 strings are settings! https://gist.github.com/Zodiac1978/1d1bd363d5ba7d1ea68e3ffe352008f1
Stop words are part of translate.wordpress.org and not every locale has configured this correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word
50 times no stop words set, 9 times just copied EN stop words - and there are more https://make.wordpress.org/polyglots/2022/09/07/word-counting-type-setting-for-locales/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/relevanssi/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-search-to-menu/ (Ivory Search)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/fulltext-search/ (WP Fast Total Search) - the only plugin fixing the false postives!
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-search-lite/
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-extended-search/
- https://searchwp.com/ (Paid - untested)
- https://github.com/soderlind/wp-loupe
- algolia - https://www.algolia.com
- ElasticSearch (ElasticPress) - https://www.elasticpress.io/
- Programmable Search Engine (Google) - https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/about/
- Apache Solr (WPsolr) - https://www.wpsolr.com/
- OpenSearch - https://opensearch.org/
- findkit - https://www.findkit.com/
- WordPress/gutenberg#3739 (Unexpected results)
- WordPress/gutenberg#10307
- WordPress/gutenberg#10247
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/56294 (WordPress search finds block name in comment )
- WordPress/gutenberg#62221 (Advanced native search block)