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1. muraii
   Member
   Posted 3 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

2. jleuze
   Member
   Posted 3 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!

3. aproimage
   Member
   Posted 3 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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