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Clark Haley

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Mar 26, 2013 - 11:03 am

I would love to see a plug-in that would allow our members to search the entire site from one single search option. I should be able to put in a search from one place and view results from blog posts, our wiki (a wordpress plug-in), and Simple-Press forums.

Thanks,

Clark Haley

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Mar 26, 2013 - 12:31 pm

I have been building a prototype plugin just this last week that will allow blog post/page searches within the forum search. If I get that off the ground then the natural follow up will be to create the opposite - which will be a search of both blog and forum within the blog pages - maybe a widget. Can't speak for your wiki of course, tnat depends on how it allows searches to be handled.

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Clark Haley

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Mar 27, 2013 - 5:09 pm

Thanks. I think a plugin would be a perfect way to handle this. I was testing bbpress and someone wrote a plugin for that product that replaced the standard search so that when you performed a search, it would look through all blogs, pages, and forums. I didn't have much data in the forums, so I can't comment on performance, but it worked great in testing (and it worked with the wiki plugin as well).

I'll be interested to see what you come up with...

Yellow Swordfish

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Mar 28, 2013 - 4:38 am

bbPress - the newer plugin version - stores its posts in the same database table as blog posts and pages. Personally I think this is a very bad idea but that is what it does. But it does make combined searching easier in all fairness. At least technically. However - it is only possible - unless building a separate index file - to use only basic search techniques on the Wp post table.

We will get there.

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