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What version of WordPress does Solr for WordPress work with?

Solr for WordPress works with WordPress 2.7.0 and greater.

What version of Solr is required.

Solr 1.3 or greater.

Can I enabledis/disable specific facets.

Yes, from the settings page. Uncheck the "Facet on FIELD" option, for the FIELD you don't want a facet for.

What is a taxonomy

A taxonomy is a hierarchal facet. This means that your subcategories will be treated as a child to the parent category instead of an individual facet.

Here is what an example category taxonomy look like:

-States
---California
------Los Angeles
---New York
------New York

Here is that same category not treating it as a taxonomy:

-States
-California
-Los Angeles
-New York
-New York

As you can see, treating it as a taxonomy is much better.

I was treating the category as a taxonomy disabled it, now my category facet looks weird

You need to delete and re-index your data.

How do I know what html tags to style in my custom theme

See solr-for-wordpress/template/search.css for an example, or view the source of the search results.

Can I create a custom search page such as http://www.myblog.com/search/?

Yes, it is fairly trivial as well. Follow the steps for custom theme integration. At the top of that page, insert a comment similar to the following:

Login to the WordPress admin GUI, select add new page, set the title of the page to "Search". On the right hand side you will see a drop-down box that says "Template", click that and select "Search". Leave the content of the page blank and publish the page.

You will have have your "/search/" page.

I need the output of this plugin in a different language

Solr for WordPress is internationalized. There is supplied .pot file that you can use for translations. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress for more details.

How do I find out the page or post id to exclude?

Login to the WordPress admin, select pages, click the page you want to exclude. The post id is what you are looking for, you can find it in the titlebar as the &post= parameter. In this example, the page id is 22, http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/page.php?action=edit&post=22.