WP doesn’t search even its own Pages 🙂
Without knowing your site ranking…. I’d predict that you’ll build up to your old ranking quicker than ever with WP and a Sitemap. So I’d just do the repost and 301’s.
However another option is either: the Google “search this site” instead of the WP search; or check into some of the Search plugins and see if they enhance the coverage.
I would like the WP search to be somewhat more powerful at least a few options. For me I have had trouble hacking it to search in Custom Fields the exact way that I want to do it.
Dgold, did you use the “search everything” plugin, or do you have your own hack for the custom fields?
http://dancameron.org/wordpress/wordpress-plugins/search-everything-wordpress-plugin/
I meant, I had so much trouble hacking it to search custom fields (the exact way that I want it to work), that I abandoned the idea so far, until I have lots of time to test it or can pay someone to help me. I think Kafkaesqui could do it, just haven’t bugged him enough to help me.
I’ll look again at Search Everything but I doubt it will accomplish my exact need, which is not just searching for something that is within any custom field. I want to Search BY Custom Field. For example pretend I have a custom field that contains the Poem Author for every post. Then I want users to be able to search for all posts containing “raven” where the custom field:Poem_Author is “Edger Allen Poe”. Kafkaesqui made a plugin that almost works (it’s on his site) but it didn’t do exactly what I want.
I realize this has very little to do with this thread… made another thread for this question long ago and it didn’t get resolved yet. No biggie, I know it’s an unusual request.
