{"id":20392,"date":"2022-03-25T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/open-bee-portal\/knowledge-base\/how-to-guides\/change-the-minimum-word-size-of-the-simple-search\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:47:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:47:41","slug":"change-the-minimum-word-size-of-the-simple-search","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/open-bee-portal\/knowledge-base\/how-to-guides\/change-the-minimum-word-size-of-the-simple-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Change the minimum word size of the simple search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By default, searching the content of documents does not return words that are less than 4 characters long.  <\/p>\n\n<p>This number of characters, set by MySQL, can be changed in the MySQL configuration file by specifying the value <strong>\n  <em>ft_min_word_len. <\/em>\n<\/strong>The default value is 4. Changing it to 3 will return 3-letter words.  <strong>my.cnf<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">[mysqld]\nft_min_word_len=3<\/pre>\n\n<p>Configuration File Path:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Debian: \/etc\/mysql\/my.cnf  <\/li><li>Windows: C:Program Files (x86)OpenBeeOpenBeePortal5mysqlmy.ini  <\/li><\/ul>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Restart MySQL after the configuration has been changed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.0\/en\/fulltext-fine-tuning.html\">http:\/\/dev.mysql.com\/doc\/refman\/5.5\/en\/fulltext-fine-tuning.html<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, searching the content of documents does not return words that are less than 4 characters long. This number of characters, set by MySQL, can be changed in the MySQL configuration file by specifying the value ft_min_word_len. The default value is 4. Changing it to 3 will return 3-letter words. my.cnf [mysqld] ft_min_word_len=3 Configuration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":20163,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/ob-help-products.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20392","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20394,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20392\/revisions\/20394"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.openbee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}