How to make WordPress search prioritise page titles?

You can replace the default WordPress search with something more useful. As you have pointed out, the build-in search is very limited. So you’re not the first one with this problem. I suggest the following two plugins:

The last one allows to weight between parts of a post. But keep in mind that it needs you to configure and make use of Sphinx, a free open-source SQL full-text search engine.

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