[Steven Zahm]

@ Charles

Ahhh… the added details helped. Obviously I didn’t think of this before, but the reason is “will” is one of the search stop words. I use the same stop word list as WordPress uses… stop words are terms that are stripped from search queries because they are too common of a word. hey are removed from search queries because these words would result is a very high number of unrelated search results.

This can be addressed with a filtering that stop word list to remove “will”. Here’s how:

Install the Code Snippets plugin.

Add a new snippet with the following code.

add_filter( 'wp_search_stopwords', 'cn_filter_stopwords' );

function cn_filter_stopwords( $stopwords ) {

  if ( $key = array_search( 'will', $stopwords ) ) {

    unset( $stopwords[ $key ] );
  }

  return $stopwords;
}

Save and activate the new snippet.

Now “will” should be removed from the stop words so he should now show up as a search result.

Hope that helps, let me know.