Search Me
Well, I’ve just found a major flaw in WordPress: the lack of a halfway-decent search engine. I don’t know, maybe it’s just the stupid theme that I based my design on, but as far as I can see, the “Search” function in the sidebar is limited to presenting the results of a search in full, unabridged form, printing whole posts in groups of ten instead of giving a succinct, easy-to-read list of titles with short excerpts. I have found and tried a dozen or so widgets, and not a single one works. Either they break with the most recent version of WordPress, or their documentation is so bad that it’s impossible to figure out what the hell you’re supposed to do.
Does anyone out there with WordPress savvy have a suggestion? I would rather avoid Google searching; I would like to control the appearance and not have the search leave my domain. I know that I am essentially asking for what Movable Type had, but it’s more out of functionality than simple dedication to what I am used to.
Thanks to everyone who helps out, in advance.
I love your blog! Even though the upgrade has made the text on my Mac look to be about 16 pt. Oh well, I’m getting old anyway. Anyhow there is another blog I read that is on WordPress and when you search her’s you get a little synopsis and a link to read more. Maybe if you look at it you can figure out what she is doing. http://tinycatpants.wordpress.com/
I hope this helps.
The text is very large on my screen as well. Perhaps it looks good on a 24″ monitor.
If you change the folder name “images” to something else (e.g. “images2”), and then do a multi file search/replace on your html code for “/images” to “/images2” via something like dreamweaver software, then everyone’s links to your images will break.
Kitty: I’ll try, but many of those tend to be special scripts written into a theme, and not widgets, alas.
Ykw: I’m not sure that kind of find/replace would work on a blog database…
This does search
www DOT lijit DOT com
YKW: Thanks, but that’s really just a Google Search wrapped up in someone else’s advertising scheme… I’d be better off just doing a Google Search directly.