Comments on: Advanced Search for Wordpress 1.5

By: Olaf Gerken

Olaf Gerken — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:13:07 +0000

Site of David Merwin not working? Possible to download the plugin anywhere else?

Olaf

By: Of Wordpress Search on iface thoughts

Of Wordpress Search on iface thoughts — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 08:53:27 +0000

[...] Tools Collection has a nice plugin (through a hack) for enhancing the search. It provides fuzzy searches and some nicer integration in the [...]

By: HackTalk.org » WP Plugin: Advanced Search

HackTalk.org » WP Plugin: Advanced Search — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 17:29:10 +0000

[...] WP Plugin: Advanced Search Add advanced search capabilities to your Wordpress blog using MySQL fulltext search. This blog also uses an advanced search plugin that I wrote sometime ago using very similar code. This plugin is better packaged and makes installation quite simple. Also check out the PDF exporting tool for Wordpress from Alex. [...]

By: Abazza

Abazza — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:20:50 +0000

Where to get the new version now,… seem to me the site of David is down?

By: Weblog Tools Collection » WP Plugin: Advanced Search

Weblog Tools Collection » WP Plugin: Advanced Search — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:31:46 +0000

By: egis

egis — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:01:11 +0000

Thanks for a nice plugin (hack).

As somebody mentioned, it is not for WP 1.5, if the themes is different (i have a travelogue), but anyway I managed to run it, look at http://www.kris-egis.com/chegis/search.php.

#3, I opened sidebar.php the required portion of the code.
#4 I needed to creat a file wp-layout.css in the root dir.

But I still do not understand how the “Text based â€œfuzzyâ€ searches within WordPress”
I tried to search “Kveinys” and there was some matches. but for “Kveinas” nothing (one letter changed). Thought that this ‘fuzzy” hack that as well.

It would be fine to have possibility to use * symbols
gg

By: nortypig

nortypig — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:06:10 +0000

Just wondering how you’ve come along with developing a plugin for this? I tried to get it to work, it amended the database but when trying to use search it had an issue with fields in the database not matching… has WP changed something that makes it now unworkable in its current state?

cheers

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:31:04 +0000

NO, the tables do not HAVE to be altered. To remove the hack, just remove the search.php from your website and any links to it.

By: Ajay D'Souza

Ajay D'Souza — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 04:26:21 +0000

How do you remove this hack from the site?
Will the altered tables need to be unaltered?

By: Weblog Tools Collection » Programmers - Please be responsible!!

Weblog Tools Collection » Programmers - Please be responsible!! — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 03:50:26 +0000

[...] ches and move on. Also, while I am being responsible myself, if you are using the “Advanced Contextual Search ” for Wordpress from this [...]

By: Sy41ful

Sy41ful — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:53:49 +0000

Hello Dave…

This Advanced Search Wordpress 1.5 still can’t running. u can view my blog. After i’m using, i can found to search any key have on my iste. But serach.php cannot display my theme!

I need to uninstall Advanced Search Wordpress 1.5 all file i can delete, but how can i’ll delete new Mysql table after install b4?

By: Sumit

Sumit — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:04:57 +0000

Hi, I am looking for code that can search the category title besides the post title/body. Does anybody know how I can achieve this? Any help is much appreciated!

By: Wil Rushmer

Wil Rushmer — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:02:09 +0000

thanks for the reply, and the links. i’m gonna check this out for sure becuase the becuase the default search is horrible. I’ve looked at a few of your contribs for wordpress, nice stuff.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:42:01 +0000

It DOES add overhead, but not enough to warrant not using the feature. If you have hundreds of thousands of articles and millions of comments, I would remove the index and not use this search, otherwise the impact is limited.

As for searching row by row, the fuzzy intelligence will have to be built into the query rather than the easy method it uses now.

Read more about it here and details on fulltext here

By: Wil Rushmer

Wil Rushmer — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:13:13 +0000

Are you adding an index on the article and categories tables with fulltext(name,content etc) ? does this not create massive amounts of overhead? I would think that searching row by row would be slower, but less overhead then updating/duplicating information to an index every time a post is made.I usually work with Berkley so I could be wrong, my mysql knowledge is limited.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:16:49 +0000

Hi Dave, how’s the plug-in coming along? Need anyone to help with testing?
Greg.

By: David Merwin

David Merwin — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:08:02 +0000

I think it may be time to make this as a true plug-in. I will start workign on it and post here when it is ready.

Thanks for all of the input.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:36:49 +0000

sorry - trying to get the 5 lines of code to show for the index page:
php
/* Short and sweet */
define(’WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(’./wp-blog-header.php’);
?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:29:38 +0000

David:

The text block the readme says to replace in ‘index.php’ is located in ’sidebar.php’ in the classic theme directory in my version of WP1.5.

If I replace that text and use the classic theme, it can’t find ’search.php’, as it
is in the root of the active directory.

I’m confused why the instructions say to modify ‘index.php’ at the root level (is that correct?) since it only holds this content:

Am I using a different build of WP1.5?

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:28:52 +0000

David:

The text block the readme says to replace in ‘index.php’ is located in ’sidebar.php’ in the classic theme directory in my version of WP1.5.

If I replace that text and use the classic theme, it can’t find ’search.php’, as it
is in the root of the active directory.

I’m confused why the instructions say to modify ‘index.php’ at the root level (is that correct?) since it only holds this content:

Am I using a different build of WP1.5?