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Commons In A Box Global Search?

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  • July 14, 2013 at 3:36 am #3148
    Eli
    Participant

    Hey Everyone, this is such a flexible awesome theme 😀

    But does anyone know of a way to implement a global search widget that searches all BuddyPress groups, members and posts and then displays the results on one page?

    July 14, 2013 at 4:03 am #3150
    MySchoolStuff
    Participant

    Hi Eli

    I use http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custom-google-search/

    July 14, 2013 at 4:44 am #3151
    Eli
    Participant

    Thanks for the response @1two3

    Hmm, I have used alot of WPMU Dev’s plugins, but does that plugin search BuddyPress groups, members etc. as well?

    July 14, 2013 at 5:00 am #3152
    MySchoolStuff
    Participant

    Hi Eli, it will search everything google can see.

    July 14, 2013 at 5:58 am #3153
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    I think I see what you are looking for @wpuncharted. I’m looking for the same:

    A search that not only gives you elements of content (doscs, pages, wiki, posts, files, forum posts) but also elements of “structure” (people, groups, forums themselves or forum topics, projects if collabpress etc…).

    Tag should do that, but it seems tags function in silos. It would be great to have a sitewide tagging function that pulls together on a page all the elements including members, groups, projects etc with that tag.

    I posted on this with no reply yet: https://commonsinabox.org/groups/help-support/forum/topic/members-tags-sitewide-tags/

    Hoping this has a solution.

    Helene

    July 14, 2013 at 7:19 am #3154
    Matthew K Gold
    Moderator

    We use Google custom search for this on the CUNY Academic Commons — http://commons.gc.cuny.edu

    July 14, 2013 at 8:57 am #3155
    Helene Finidori
    Participant

    @Mkgold. Is it a plugin? The same one as Myschoolstuff ? http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custom-google-search/ There are several google custom search and custom google search plugins. And this one does not appear in the Cbox plugin search.

    @1two3 yours seem to have google ads. Can this be turned off?

    Can we configure some proeminence of tagged stuff or distinction between tagged stuff (intentional) and keywords based search (non tagged activity)?

    July 14, 2013 at 9:34 am #3157
    Matthew K Gold
    Moderator

    Hi Helene —

    No, not a plugin — we’ve embedded the search form directly into the theme
    files. Think we have an open ticket on Github related to adding a search
    box to the CBOX theme.

    On Jul 14, 2013 8:57 AM, “Commons In A Box”
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