Title: [Plugin: WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin] Documentation
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin] Documentation

 *  [trinzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinzia/)
 * (@trinzia)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-sphinx-search-plugin-documentation/)
 * I cannot find any documentation for theme authors.
 * I’m writing a theme, and I wanted to check if this plugin uses wp_query to work(
   some search plugins don’t.) Since I couldn’t find that information, I tried to
   install the plugin on my computer, since I’m running WAMP. Install failed.
 * All I wanted to do was a simple plugin check before returning ‘suggested search
   results’ in my theme’s 404 page.
 * I also couldn’t find documentation on whether any code is required to display
   results from Custom Fields, or code samples for anything like that. What if I
   want a search form that has an ‘exclude’ field? Where’s the snippet? Doesn’t 
   this plugin require theme support?
 * This appears to be the only maintained plugin for using Sphinx or Lucene, so 
   the lack of documentation is frustrating. I really wish there were snippets for
   theme developers somewhere; has anyone seen them?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/)

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 * [WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-sphinx-plugin/#faq)
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 * Last reply from: [trinzia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trinzia/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-sphinx-search-plugin-documentation/)
 * Status: not resolved