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1. anup
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I am using the search plugin of welcome.totheinter.net for multisite search (originally relating to wpmu).

   Recently I found if I do a search of certain term like 'success', then it shows up posts that do not exist!

   And not just that, if I am logged in as admin, it would even show edit button and take me to backend page - of course the page does not have any update or other options

   The frontend URL does give 'not found' error

   site: http://indiapoint.net

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   Screenshot 2

   I am posting this, because, i somehow feel that this has to do with the core, and not the plugin.

2. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   There's an extremely good chance the plugin doesn't work in 3.0. Looks like it's finding posts from other blogs and making them appear to come from the main blog.

   Quick test: disable the plugin. Try the per-site search.

3. Person
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I'm pretty sure that that plugin is specifically designed to search all posts and pages from all blogs on a multisite network. It's also updated to work on 3.0, see here: http://welcome.totheinter.net/2010/05/15/wpsearchmu-updated-to-work-with-wordpress-30/

   Though, I second Andrea's last comment in that you should try the per-site search on your /success/ blog to see if the same problem shows up. If not, you should report the bug concerning the non-existant post to the plugin's respective author so that they can fix it.

4. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   awesome, hadn't checked to see if it was updated.

   Tho, yeah, it's possible there's a bug in the plugin itself, you know? the post has to exist somewhere - search the database to see where it's coming from.

5. anup
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I have written my above post only after updating the plugin. I came across such result only after I updated to WP3.

   The site search plugin is active only in blog 1 - and not in other blogs. So, you can compare search

   Normal WP search:
   http://indiapoint.net/success/?s=success

   With site search plugin:
   http://indiapoint.net/?s=success

   Frankly I am nonplussed as to from where it is being fetched. Anyway, I have already informed the plugin author.

6. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   The site search plugin is active only in blog 1

   That is probably the issue. It is supposed to be installed in the /wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder so it runs on all blogs all the time.

7. anup
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Is the mu-plugin directory still relevant under WP3 ?

   Or one could take the route of 'network-activate'?

   However, i feel that if the 'mu-plugin' directory were still relevant, then the search should have thrown up weird results in all instances - why in this very rare instance?

   thanks.

8. Andrea Rennick
   Customer Care at Copyblogger Media and Studiopress
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   The mu-plugins folder has been supported in regualr wordPress since 2.8. So yes, it's still relevant.

   You'll see it show in the backend as a "must-use" plugins folder.

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