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keep
3 Feb 2026

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Smart Search currently uses a single global "word match" setting (exact / begin / fuzzy) for all search results.

In my use case, different types of indexed content benefit from different matching modes.
For example:

  • articles work best with exact matching,
  • tags work better with begin matching.

As far as I can see, at the moment, this cannot be configured without custom code or extensions.

Describe the solution you'd like

Allow Smart Search filters to optionally override the global word match mode.

Proposed behavior:

  • keep the current global "word match" setting as the default
  • allow an optional per-filter override (exact / begin / fuzzy)

This would keep full backward compatibility while allowing more precise search behavior per filter.

Additional context

This is a configuration-level improvement and does not change the default behavior of Smart Search.

avatar keep keep - open - 3 Feb 2026
avatar joomla-cms-bot joomla-cms-bot - change - 3 Feb 2026
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avatar richard67 richard67 - change - 3 Feb 2026
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singhaditya73 - comment - 19 Feb 2026

Hey @richard67 could u please assign this issue to me.

avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 19 Feb 2026

Hey @richard67 could u please assign this issue to me.

@singhaditya73 We do not assign issues. If you want to work on it, just do it.

avatar richard67
richard67 - comment - 19 Feb 2026

@singhaditya73 P.S. If you make a pull request, you should make it for the 6.1-dev branch as this would be a new feature. See https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms?tab=readme-ov-file#which-branch-should-my-pull-request-target .

avatar HLeithner HLeithner - change - 21 Feb 2026
Status New Closed
Closed_Date 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026-02-21 19:37:19
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avatar HLeithner HLeithner - close - 21 Feb 2026

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