Archive for July, 2009

How to Customize Multiple Search Result Pages in Wordpress

Rebecca Markowitz | July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
In the previous post, we discussed how to hack the search function in Wordpress to have an additional search form that would search  subcategories. Now that you have 2 or more search forms on your site, you might need to customize the search results. Thanks to this solution, I learned how to ... View Post

New WordPress mailing list for asking and answering WordPress development questions

Miriam Schwab | July 21, 2009 | 4 Comments
Where can you go if you have questions about developing and managing a WordPress site? Well, we all know about the WordPress Forums, which can be a useful resource for getting experts and WordPress staff to answer your questions. However, not everybody is a fan of the forum format - including me. ... View Post

How to Hack the Wordpress Search Function: Search Categories and Child Categories

Rebecca Markowitz | July 21, 2009 | 9 Comments
Recently, we had a client who wanted a special recipe search. There were 2 ways to extend the search functionality - manually or dynamically. 1. Search One or More Categories Manually If we want to search one category, we could have used this solution which lets you manually add category numbers to the search function: [Replace ... View Post