WP MU BuddyPress: Site-wide Search?

  • muraii

    (@muraii)


    14 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    I think this should be in Advanced, but the #postform is hidden for some reason. Hope this isn’t entirely off-topic, though.

    I’m looking to try WP MU + BuddyPress for a community site, and one of the goals is to maintain blogs and a forum under a coherent UI. I am pretty sure this combination will work well (and early research into Movable Type + Motion indicates that combo won’t be so easily corralled), but one thing I’m uncertain of is search.

    Would a user be able to use a single search form to search across both WP MU and BuddyPress? This is at least aesthetically important, to maintain the coherence.

    Thanks in advance for tips and help.

    Daniel

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  • Josh Leuze

    (@jleuze)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    When I want to be able to setup search across a whole site, say in the case of WordPress and bbPress, or a combination of static and dynamic content, I use Google Custom Search Engine.

    Google does a way better job than WordPress’ built in search anyways!

    aproimage

    (@aproimage)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    I think this article may be of some use to you, it covers the all of the bases and provides a good WPMU sitewide search solution (WPSearchMU) http://welcome.totheinter.net/2009/05/22/a-better-sitewide-search-for-wordpress-mu/….however I have not tried testing this within Buddypress yet, it’s on my imminent to-do list as I need similar functionality to what your after but the search side of WPMU and Buddypress seem to work differently. Although Google custom search engine commonly gets a mention, it has it’s limitations and it’s not for everyone, particularly if aesthetics are important to you.

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