Hi @sixtyseven
Thank you for the tip! It’s great to see people sharing what they’ve learned! 🙂
I’m not sure why you wouldn’t want to use a search-enhancing plugin like relevanssi or searchWP? They provide quite a bit more than just the ability to search meta etc. such as fuzzy matching and stopwords to name a few.
I’m always using a search-plugin for any site that utilise search.