DEPRICATED: This plugin is no longer supported as someone produced a better product that I now use.

Advanced search plugin for better features all round

The notes below are for people who have the plugin already.

The standard WordPress search capability is limited to post content and the titles. It does not search pages or excerpts. It also does not hilight the terms you searched for. This plugin does.

Some themes do not handle the permalink structure if you are not using the default structure (query-string based). This plugin handled this by switching back to the query string based permalink structure for the searching.

Finally, if you are on a post page, and you have the 'SS' query string variable set, the plugin will hilight these terms for you. This is particularly useful if you modify your search page to allow for passing the search term on in the permalink.

Known issues

The search hilighter will hilight anything it finds by replacing the words exactly with the syntax HTML… this means that if you happen to search for HTML, it coud replace those and stuff up your page. Not sure how to fix this yet.

Plug-in installation and activation

Unzip the plug-in into your wp-content/plugins directory. In your plug-ins admin panel you should enable the plug-in. There are no configurable options for this plugin.

Release history

Version 1.0 (May 16, 2006)
Initial release.

Version 1.1 (May 20, 2006)
Fixed pagination issues.

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