WordPress Global Site Search Plugin

Screenshots

Configuration options for Global Site Search in Site Admin > Options

Searching content across your entire site using the Global Site Search page

Example of Global Site search being used to find posts on the entire site that includes the word Library

One of the things people have been less than fond about as regards WordPress has been it’s search functionality.

This has become even more of an issue when it comes to WordPress Multisite and BuddyPress as there’s simply no way to search across all the blogs on your entire site… that is, until now.

This plugin utilizes our powerful post indexer plugin to provide you with full indexing of all the posts, from across all blogs, that you can then simply search through.

All you have to do is install the Global Search plugin (make sure Post indexer is installed) and it should auto create a page called “Site Search” for you where anyone can search through all your blogs.

And it’s pretty search too, including all the avatars of the blogs where search terms come up :) Here it is in Norwegian:

No coding required!

And, on the off chance the page isn’t auto created all you need to do is create a page with the slug “site-search” without the quotes.

And if you want to put the search form on another page, just lift it out of the site search page and you should be good.

Happy searching :)

To install:

You’ll first need to ensure you’ve downloaded and installed our Post Indexer plugin first!

1. Download the plugin file

2. Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive

3. Upload /global-site-search/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site

4. Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

This plugin requires our Post Indexer plugin in order to work. Please install Post Indexer first!
That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To use:

It should auto create a page called “Site Search” on your main blog where anyone can search through all your blogs.

On the off chance the page isn’t auto created all you need to do is create a page with the slug “site-search” without the quotes if the plugin fails to auto-create the page.

Changing
how posts are displayed in your Global Site Search is as simple as:

1. Go to Network Admin > Settings

2. Scroll down the page to the Site Search Section

3. Select the number of listings you want to display per page i.e. the number of posts displayed

4. Adjust the color scheme, if you want

5. Choose which custom post types you’d like to search

5. Click Save Changes at bottom of page

Searching
for a post as a user is as simple as:

1. Go to your Global Site Search page on your homepage

2. Add your search term and click Search

Global Site search

Please note:

This feature only searches posts on public blogs — any posts on private blogs (only visible to logged in users) isn’t searchable.
To display avatars your users will need to upload their avatar via Users > Your Avatar.