I just updated to Blogs Directory 1.1.5 and was excited to see in the changelog that search results now include keywords in blog titles. But this is clearly not working with our directory at http://tripawds.com/blogs
At the top of our directory page, you will notice a number of our "featured blogs" but when searching for words in the titles of these blogs no results are returned. Example: Searching for "Nutrition" returns no results but searching for "supplements" does. Nutrition is in the title and supplements is in the description of our Nutrition blog.
Does it take a certain amount of time for all sites to be indexed? All the sites I mention are public, and I have not selected either of the new "hide" options. Is there something else I'm missing?
I just updated to Blogs Directory 1.1.5 and was excited to see in the changelog that search results now include keywords in blog titles. But this is clearly not working with our directory at http://tripawds.com/blogs
At the top of our directory page, you will notice a number of our "featured blogs" but when searching for words in the titles of these blogs no results are returned. Example: Searching for "Nutrition" returns no results but searching for "supplements" does. Nutrition is in the title and supplements is in the description of our Nutrition blog.
Does it take a certain amount of time for all sites to be indexed? All the sites I mention are public, and I have not selected either of the new "hide" options. Is there something else I'm missing?
I see what you're saying, and I can see the description's getting searched, just the title doesn't appear to be. I've just run through a couple local tests and can confirm the same is happening there.
Just curious why the search only returns exact matches. For instance a search for barney or *barney does not find a blog with killbarney in the title.
FYI: I did not encounter any similar issues with the Site Search plugin. I may be wrong, but I believe that only searches _posts not site titles or descriptions.
Responses (6)
WPMU DEV Fanatic — 21st November 2011 #
Hi jcnjr,
I see what you're saying, and I can see the description's getting searched, just the title doesn't appear to be. I've just run through a couple local tests and can confirm the same is happening there.
I'll tag the developer to have a look at this.
-David
Developer — 21st November 2011 #
Hi,
I understood why:
For Title it's shows results where coincidence more than 80%.
for blog 'Tripawds Nutrition' the word Nutrition has coincidence = around 50% .
I will change the logic.
Thank you.
Member — 21st November 2011 #
Thank you for the quick reply and great work! Looking forward to the update.
Developer — 22nd November 2011 #
Hi jcnjr,
I changed the logic for search by Title and made some other changes.
Please update the plugin.
Member — 22nd November 2011 #
Very cool Pro Sites integration.
Just a heads up, I think these changes might be necessary for the Site Search plugin. I was never able to get good results in my trials...
Also +1 for Blog Types solution please...
Member — 22nd November 2011 #
Thanks for the quick update! Much better. :-)
Just curious why the search only returns exact matches. For instance a search for barney or *barney does not find a blog with killbarney in the title.
FYI: I did not encounter any similar issues with the Site Search plugin. I may be wrong, but I believe that only searches _posts not site titles or descriptions.
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