Better Search

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1. John Myrstad says:

   March 25, 2009 at 4:53 pm

   It seems like search results show [shortcode] used in posts. Maybe they should be filtered out when not rendered ?

   John Myrstad
2. Jan Jaap says:

   March 25, 2009 at 6:10 pm

   Really like this plugin and giving it a test-drive on my local installation. Search results are way better then the defaults, however there are some points which would be nice if implemented.

   The layout of the search results (table | posts | footer) are still generated in the code. Would be nice if there could be some kind of callback feature where you can replace the output of a post with your own HTML, now you have to hardcode it in the plugin.
   • Ajay says:

     March 25, 2009 at 6:12 pm

     This is actually a top priority list. Instead of a call back function, I plan on implementing Template Tags (or support for WordPress inbuilt Template Tags). I believe this is a lot easier to implement and understand for users.
     • Jan Jaap says:

       March 25, 2009 at 7:17 pm

       I have been modifying the plugin, particularly the foreach loop which displays all the posts, so it mimics as if it was in the_loop.

       This makes it much easier to work with as wordpress then has several functions available for displaying the posts.
       • Tom says:

         March 31, 2009 at 1:03 am

         Hi Jan Jaap and Ajay,
         Jan Jaap, could you share your code with us? I’m very interested in how you did this! Maybe it is also a solution for the question by John Myrstad. I’m also stuck with the [shortcodes] issues.
         It looks to me that the_excerpt() handles those codes quite well by eliminating them, which is better than, well, showing the codes themselves

         TIA,

         regards,

         Tom
         • Jan Jaap says:

           April 1, 2009 at 9:49 pm

           Tom,

           I modified the better-search.php file, adding several variables so that it is tricking wordpress that it is in ‘the_loop’.

           My better-search.php file
       • Ajay says:

         April 1, 2009 at 10:07 pm

         Thanks Jan. I’ll implement these changes after my tests into the next version of WP.

         Also internationalize the same accordingly.
       • Tom says:

         April 7, 2009 at 11:44 pm

         Thanx a million Jan Jaap and Ajay! I notice your alterations have some Dutch phrases… geen probleem! / no problem! I’ll go check them out!

         Tom
       • Tom says:

         April 8, 2009 at 12:32 am

         Hi,

         just implemented the plugin, with the alterations of Jan Jaap. It is in fact (I think) the solution to the question of John. At least it does the trick for me!

         One comment though: it is a bit unclear to me how the relevance is calculated. Sometimes when I perform a search, I’d expect some results coming up before others. But fair enough, I think it is way better than the original WP-search. Thanx again, Ajay for your good work, and Jan Jaap for your adjustments!

         Regards,

         Tom
         • Ajay says:

           April 8, 2009 at 12:34 am

           The relevance is a calculated by mySQL by matching the term with your content.

           I’ll be putting in Jan’s implementation the moment I find the time to update.
     • Jan Jaap says:

       April 9, 2009 at 6:58 pm

       I have been modifying and stripping down this modification even further until I came up with the following version for my own website.

       Stripped version of better search

       Basicly what I did is use the filter functions of wordpress and replace the query for fetching the search posts with the one used in better-search plugin.

       Then if you are in the search.php file of your template you can still access the search score via $post->score.

       So again I want to thank you for releasing this great plugin as it improves search results quite a lot.
3. Elliott says:

   March 30, 2009 at 11:00 pm

   Hi,

   Nice plugin.

   My suggestion would be a way of turning off popular search/hot searches so that only the contextual search appears if that makes sense.

   Elliott
   • Ajay says:

     March 30, 2009 at 11:18 pm

     You can easily do that by creating a template file for your theme. Check the link above.
4. Kirk says:

   April 6, 2009 at 1:34 pm

   Hi, thanks for a great plugin.
   Is there any way to limit the summary length in the search results, or eliminate the summary completely? Other options would be to display tags and categories, but these are somewhat addressed in comments above.
   Cheers
5. Daniel says:

   April 10, 2009 at 7:39 pm

   First congratulations for this great plugin.

   Just a request. Can you create an option to enable/disable showing the daily/week/popular searches ?

   Because, I wanted to just show the Popular searches and was a war to do it . I am almost sure that I messed up with the code.

   Anyhow, thanks for this plugin.

   Best,
   Daniel
   • Ajay says:

     April 10, 2009 at 11:06 pm

     The Total Popular Searches and Daily Searches are two different widgets / functions.
     • Daniel says:

       April 11, 2009 at 10:52 am

       Hi,

       And how do I enable only Total Popular Searches?

       Thanks
       • Ajay says:

         April 11, 2009 at 11:03 am

         http://ajaydsouza.com/wordpress/plugins/better-search/#installing
6. Leo Lemos says:

   April 14, 2009 at 7:18 pm

   Hi, great plugin! Congrats!

   I have a question, how I hide contact form (contact form 7- famous plugin) codes from search results?
   Ex: [contact-form 1 "contact"]

   Thanks.
7. levani says:

   May 1, 2009 at 12:03 am

   Can I exclude pages and search posts only?
8. Tompa says:

   May 19, 2009 at 8:25 pm

   Thanks for a great plugin.

   I have one problem though and that is that I have a “members area” which “hides” some pages for unregistered, using User access manager (http://www.gm-alex.de/projects/wordpress/plugins/user-access-manager/).
   The “member” pages comes up in the search results, which is not good.
   Is there something I can do to exclude “member pages” in the search results?
9. Dex says:

   June 13, 2009 at 6:59 pm

   Hello Ajay,
   It says i need to add the code

   I don’t know where? Is it at the function.php?

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