WordPress site owners have an option under Settings > Privacy to keep their site open to visitors, but block search engines. Very handy when developing a site, or managing a private site that you don’t want the world to see, but you don’t want to have to deal with logins either.
We often use that ...
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A new WordPress plugin called Headup was released about a week ago by SemantiNet, a startup dedicated to developing Semantic Web technologies and platforms. The plugin works on top of the company’s existing technology, and automatically adds rich content to terms that appear in your blog posts.
I installed ...
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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 ...
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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:
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I just received an email from Matt Mullenweg, founder of Wordpress, letting me know that the "Plugin search no longer sucks". I was so excited that I didn't even notice the typo he later reported on Twitter.
According to the official Wordpress site, Wordpress Plugins directory search is no longer a ...
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Urban Giraffe has a list of amazing plugins that the guy behind the site, John Godley, developed. Many of these plugins are really unique, and I haven't seen anything like them anywhere else.
Here are the ones that I find most interesting, and I hope to try out soon:
In default WordPress installations, the search function only yields results for posts. It does not search pages, comments, or anything else.
Search Everything from Dan Cameron solves that problem. Install and activate the plugin, and then go to Options > Search Everything to select what exactly ...
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Update June 6, 2007: There is a problem with closing HTML tags in Kaf's Excerpt Reloaded Plugin. This means that if you define <ul> as one of the HTML tags you want to preserve in your excerpts, you may end up with a page of excerpts that is one big list, since the closing ...
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Search Pages, Comments and more with Search Everything Plugin