WordPress MU

Is there a way to add a search bar that will search the entire site, not just the blog home page?

we are using the blogname.wordpress.XXX.org format.

I was hoping that we could edit the theme we are using for the main site and alter the search settings there.

If you use the sitewide tags plugin then the standard search can search every post but only on whatever blog you import all the posts to.

Right, but how can I search the entire site?

I.e. students create hundreds of blog sites.

I need for a student to be able to go to the main blog page, and search for what they want to see.....

Well that would allow you to search all posts sitewide but it wouldn't allow you to search for a specific blog which is also something I need to figure out. Let me know if you figure that out.

There are certainly lots of threads here if you search "sitewide search". Came across this with a quick search. Maybe that will help?

Thanks, that looks like that may work....

I'll tell you what I said in a hundred other threads:

- get the sitewide tags plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/
- set it to pump all posts to the main blog
- use the (unmodified) search on the main blog to search all the posts.

presto.

Added bonus: aggregating all content, tons of links back & forth, promotion of members blogs, sitewide tags....

andrea_r

Excellent suggestions, I like that idea... Thanks for the help, as always.

There's also always the approach of buying a Google Search Appliance or a MS SharePoint For Search server, running it as a custom indexer against your sites, and then writing a plugin to communicate with that indexer.