Nov
18
Looking for a WordPress Search plugin
Does anybody know of a WordPress plugin that makes it possible to search across multiple WordPress blogs with one search request? I’m running several installations here (like this one and the Triforce one) that all run from the same database, and it’d be great to have a way to search the content of all of them at once.
Thoughts of Imbalanced Mind
Hmm, I have been googling a bit and found nothing but this: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2720
which you would undoubtedly already have found yourself :)
I guess you need the create some more tables and write your own search.php
Yeah, I’m only using MU for the member blogs, the others are all standalone. I have been playing with the idea of integrating the latter, or end up writing some own search thingie that looks across all relevant databases and tables, thus integrating the forum and gallery into the search as well. But that seems like a bit of a tall order.
a bit?! I guess that’s gonna consume a lot of time, and I mean a lot :) But I guess you don’t have much of a choice really. Have all information you want searchable pulled into new-created tables, and attach those tables to your searchform. I think you should consider what you want shown in the searchresults as well, being information that’s pulled from those general tables.
A bit of a hassle, but I understand were the wish is coming from :)
Not really a plugin but some people like SikBox
http://www.sikbox.com
Based on a first look that’s not at all what I was looking for but exactly what I could need short of handcoding my own solution.
Thanks!
My thoughts about it exactly. A combination of that and an actual search page is something that intrigues me.