Pull Request for Issue #44549 .

Summary of Changes

Add option to finder plugin "Smart Search - Content" for excluding search for author's name in article field "created by".

Testing Instructions

You'll need some articles written by an author and in one or several articles insert the author's name as normal content (article text). Add a finder / smart search into your site as you would generally do. For example add a menu item with menu item type "Search" without special filters or advanced features. Don't forget to index your content in backend in the search component.

After the changes of this pull request you'll have an additional option in the finder plugin content "Include articles 'created by' (author's name)?" with default value "yes". Everything remains as it is if this option is not changed.

For testing purposes switch the new option to "no" and save it. Then you'll need to clear your search index and reindex content.

In frontend, search for the author's name which you included in the article text of one or more articles.

Actual result BEFORE applying this Pull Request

The search results will show all articles created by this author.

Users are confused because they don't know how these search results come about - unless the site is configured so that the authors are always visible in the articles, which is often not the case.
They would expect only those articles to be listed where the author's name appears in the normal article text.

Expected result AFTER applying this Pull Request

The search results will only show those articles in which the author's name is included in the article content text.

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