Josh Harrison

<p>The Yahoo BOSS plugin makes it easy to create a search engine in your WordPress install. Simply activate and configure and you’re off and running. This plugin does not replace the default search within WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yahoo Search BOSS</a> (Build your Own Search Service) allows you to create a search engine using Yahoo technologies via a REST API. Currently, only web content search (images and news coming soon) is supported. You will need to get your own <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/" rel="nofollow ugc">BOSS application ID</a> to create your search engine. Use of this plugin subjects you to the <a href="http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/search/bosstos/bosstos-2317.html" rel="nofollow ugc">BOSS API Terms of Use</a>. Please read carefully.</p>
<p>In order for your search engine to function correctly, you need to define where you want both the search form and the search results to show. This is done with simple shortcodes that you need to add to a page or pages.</p>
<p>To create the search form add [boss_search_form] to a page.</p>
<p>To define where you want your search results use [boss_search_results]. Nothing will show if a query hasn’t been performed.</p>
<p>The page contents would be the following if you wanted a search form followed by the search results.</p>
<p>[boss_search_form]</p>
<p>[boss_search_results]</p>
<p>Use [pw_search] to combine both shortcodes.</p>
<p>Alternatively, there are numerous template functions available if you prefer to use those over shortcodes.</p>
<p>That is all you need to do to create your custom search engine.</p>
<h3>Administration</h3>
<p>You need to modify a few options for the plugin to work correctly.</p>
<p>Yahoo App ID: add your <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/wsregapp/" rel="nofollow ugc">Yahoo BOSS application ID</a> here. This option is required.</p>
<p>Results per Page: use to configure how many search results you want to show on each page. Default is 10.</p>
<p>Format: the format of the search results. This would be useful if you want to use with AJAX. Default is XML.</p>
<p>Domains to Search: add site urls here if you want to limit your search to certain sites (one per line).</p>
<h3>Extending</h3>
<p>Yahoo App ID can be overridden with a defined constant in wp-config.</p>
<pre><code>define('YAHOO_APP_ID', 'your_app_id_goes_here');
</code></pre>
<p>There are some filters available to use.</p>
<p>pw_boss_title – applied to the title of the search engine in the search form. Filter function arguments: title.</p>
<p>pw_boss_button – applied to the button to initiate the search in the search form. Filter function arguments: button text.</p>
<p>pw_boss_stylesheet – applied to the search engine stylesheet to provide your own custom stylesheet. Filter function arguments: default stylesheet.</p>
<p>pw_boss_result_info – modify the result meta information (1-10 of 201321 results for WordPress)</p>


Yahoo BOSS

The Yahoo BOSS plugin makes it easy to create a search engine in your WordPress install. This plugin does not replace the default search.

ixiter

<p>Simple Google Sitemap is a plugin to create automatically an XML Sitemap for your blog and pings it to ASK.COM, Google and MSN, whenever an Article was published or deleted.<br />
You can edit various options for the created sitemap file.</p>
<h3>History</h3>
<p>= Preposition =<br />
This plugin is similar to Arne Brachold’s (arnee) <a href="http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/" title="Google XML Sitemaps" rel="nofollow ugc">Google XML Sitemaps Plugin</a>.<br />
When i ran into trouble from its huge hunger for memory, I decided to write another Google Sitemapper, including all important features, but less memory usage.<br />
It is also my first WP plugin ever. Hope you like and use it.</p>
<h4>V1.6 – December 20, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>New: Yahoo added, since it doesnt require an Application ID anymore to submit a sitemap.</li>
<li>Improvement: Added numbers to language files to show german decimal number format for priority values.</li>
<li>Bugfix: Priority values are allways set correctly now</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.5 – December 17, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improvement: Changed class declaration down to PHP 4 compatibility.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.4 – December 17, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: Link URLs corrected. Using Blog’s permalink settings now</li>
<li>Bugfix: Markdown in readme.txt fixed. Some underscores needed to be escaped.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.3 – December 15, 20008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: 2 items in german translation corrected.</li>
<li>Bugfix: ask.com ping url corrected</li>
<li>Bugfix: ask.com ping url corrected</li>
<li>Improvement: Found and use wp_remote_get() now, to ping search engines.</li>
<li>Improvement: Shows apporved ping results now</li>
<li>New: Shows ping URLs with the ping results</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.2 – December 15, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Bugfix: Didnt update the sitemap file, when a page was published. Now it updates when a new page was published, or a prior published page was edited.</li>
<li>New: Multilanguage Feature added. Supportet languages are english (default) and german. </li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.1 – December 14, 2008</h4>
<ul>
<li>Improvement: Added ASK.COM and MSN to pinged Search engines</li>
<li>Improvement: Search Enigine Ping uses fopen, file_get_contents or curl now. If none of these is possible, it throws a propper notification msg to the user and provides links to ping the services manually.</li>
</ul>
<h4>V1.0 – December 12, 2008</h4>
<p>My very first WP plugin ever. It took a few hours to read about WP plugin development and get it to run. Hopefully its bug free. Still some important features missing.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pytal.de/" title="pytal.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Nenad Marjanovic and Pytal</a> – for great hosting and technical support, for sharing knowledge</li>
<li><a href="http://solscape.astroarts.org" title="Solscape - German Science Blog" rel="nofollow ugc">Olaf Prause</a> – for beta tests, for exciting nightly googletalks about life, universe and all the rest.</li>
<li>The moderators of “Planet Freak”, the worlds funiest Skype talkshow with 4 moderators and various brave single guests – for entertainment</li>
</ul>


Simple Google Sitemap

Creates an XML Sitemap, containing Homepage, Articles and Pages

Yahoo BOSS vs Simple Google Sitemap