A Search Plugin for WordPress

July. 31. 2010 by admin –  Category: Internet (2 Comments)

I wrote search function software for some search engine, I have tried some plugins for WordPress search function, there are some details, Relevanssi plugin is compatible with WordPress 3.0, KeyPoints.com search is based on Relevanssi. after you activate this plugin, make sure you click its Index button to process the contents, or it will not work. however it does not fully support utf8 character search.

the following link is information about Relevanssi,
http://www.mikkosaari.fi/relevanssi/

features:

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• Relevance-sorted results, so the best results are first.
• Very simple, yet effective search engine.
• Fuzzy matching to make finding results easier.
• Easy installation.
• Updates index automatically and quickly.
• Modifying the stop word list used by the indexing is possible and simple.
• Indexing can be set to include only posts, only pages or both.
• Relevanssi can index comments, tags and custom fields.
• Relevanssi can also expand shortcodes before indexing documents.
• The plugin comes stop word lists in several languages besides English.
• Search results show the part of the document where the search term is.
• Search terms are highlighted in the results, with several different methods available.
• Search term logging.
• Search results can be limited to certain categories or tags.
• Certain categories or tags can be excluded from the search results.
• Custom post types and taxonomies can be included in the index.

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