WPSearch 2 is the missing site search for your Wordpress installation. Install this plugin if you need a fast, relevant, google-like search.

Simone Baldini

Enhanced Search

Wordpress plugin that improves basic search giving you the possibility to do a fine tuning.

Kenny

<p>WPSearch 2 is a major update to the highest rated search plug-in for WordPress, WPSearch.<br />
This plugin focuses on search relevancy and speed.</p>
<p>If you find this project useful and you want to support it, just follow @_kennyk_ on Twitter 🙂</p>
<p>The major features of WPSearch 2 are:</p>
<pre><code>* Super-fast search speed
* Unmatched and customizable search relevancy
* Control over boosting the importance of title and content fields
* Instantly updated searching after a post has been written
* Searching of any type of post
* Wildcard and Boolean operator support
* Category searching
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<p>Requirements:</p>
<pre><code>* WordPress 3
* The iconv library/multibyte support (Usually installed/enabled on a server by default. If not, have an admin compile PHP with --enable-mbstring).
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<p>Coming soon!: Exclude certain posts or categories (a long-standing feature request).</p>
<p>Note:</p>
<p>If you have a large site with over 10,000 posts, consider using WPSearch Premium,<br />
which has all the power of this free repository version, but can handle up to 500,000 posts under heavy load and faster speed<br />
with it’s low-level backend driver. To learn more, email kenny@oconf.org.</p>
<h3>Manual Installation</h3>
<p>Install WPSearch 2 from the WordPress plugin admin panel if possible.</p>
<p>If you are upgrading from a previous version, it is recommended that you rebuild your index after the upgrade.</p>
<pre><code>* Copy the wpsearch folder to the WordPress plugins directory
* Set permissions of the wpsearch directory to 777 (very important!): $ chmod -R 777 wpsearch/*
* Activate wpSearch
* Go to Settings-->WPSearch Options, and click "Build Index"
* Click "Save Changes" and wait until the page reloads (this can take a while depending on the number of posts in your blog)
* Go to your blog's search box and search. Do the results look better? Cool!

Did you have trouble installing? Let me know! katzgrau@gmail.com
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<p>Note: Don’t forget the bit about changing folder permissions!</p>
<h3>Fix Log</h3>
<ul>
<li>2.0.3.0: Fixed file path inclusion issue for Zend library. Added notice in case user does not have multibyte support.</li>
<li>2.0.2.5: Stopped WPSearch from interfering with admin post search, fixed error message in WP admin page registration</li>
<li>2.0.2.0: Added customizable searching of post types, and a relevancy fix</li>
<li>2.0.1.2: Fixed ‘quick edit’ javascript error due to erroneous inclusion, added fix for long indexing times</li>
<li>2.0.1.0: Re-added ability to boost title and content, fixed pagination bug</li>
<li>2.0.0.0: Complete rewrite with a bunch of new features. Check it out!</li>
<li>1.5.0.5: Null Result Fix ( Finally! ), logging support, search library upgrade (ZF v1.5.3)</li>
<li>1.5.0.1: Comment Searching, Foreign Character support, ‘Phone Home’</li>
<li>1.5.0.0: Faster searching, core integration, 0 style or javascript includes</li>
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<h3>Known Conflictions</h3>
<p>wpSearch is known to react with certain plugins which manipulate search results.<br />
These plugins most likely expect the default WordPress search to in use, which it is not.<br />
The following plugins are known to cause issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Custom Query String ( CQS )</li>
<li>Headspace2</li>
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<p>Send all bug reports to ohcrap@oconf.org.</p>


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