Database searching only posts and not stories

  • Resolved eschuman

    (@eschuman)


    17 years, 11 months ago

    The WordPress search feature on the site seems to default to only searching blog items and not the full stories behind them.
    Here’s an example and I hope it’s acceptable that I use a real URL. My blog is called StorefrontBacktalk. Here’s one story from that blog: http://storefrontbacktalk.com/story/052506PGRFID.php
    If you go to the homepage of my blog–www.storefrontbacktalk.com–you can use the search function and search for the word “Sarma,” which is the name of a guy quoted in the eighth graf. It comes up empty and yet it’s there. Experimentation suggests that the search is ONLY looking at blog entries and not the stories behind them. The vast majority of content on this site will be in the stories themselves. How do I change that setting on WordPress?

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    We don’t know what your “stories” are – obviously WP doesn’t know it either… that doesn’t seem to be a URL gnerated by WP.
    Yes, the basic search functions is searching only the posts.

    Thread Starter eschuman

    (@eschuman)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks, but any suggestions as to how I can get the WordPress search tool to search everything housed on the WordPress blog? In the alternative, is there a search add-on out there somewhere that might be a good choice?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    There is a plugin that searches the Pages (created with WP in Write > Write Pages) but those files of your don’t seem to be Pages either.

    Thread Starter eschuman

    (@eschuman)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    I’m sorry to ask, but what do they appear to be? They are appearing with URLs from the WordPress blog name and they certainly are sitting on one of the site’s folders. From the WordPress perspective, what constitute a “page”? Isn’t every file on the site a page?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    They seem to be physical files somehow showing up with the same layout/design as WP.
    Page (with capital P) in WP “lingo” is this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages

    With WP you can publish either posts (the entries displayed in chronological order as in every kind of blogging tool) – and so-called static Pages. It’s a misnomer since the content of the Pages is also stored in the DB, but they have a different ‘flag’ and they are NOT part of the chronological stream.

    Anything else – is not something created with WP.

    davidchait

    (@davidchait)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Yeah, what ARE those ‘stories’, where did they come from? They don’t seem to be in WordPress itself but some kind of external content. WordPress doesn’t go and index your webserver — if you want that, use something like Google SiteSearch…

    -d

    Thread Starter eschuman

    (@eschuman)

    17 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks all! That helps. We’ll figure out some other way to search the content.

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