Pods search integration with WP Search API plugin
This: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search/ WordPress Search API plugin was recently released and it provides a fantastic API system to extend the standard WP search. It comes with a Google or MySQL search plugin. They are mutually exclusive.
However, the plugin provides an API to create your own search plugin or extend the MySQL search to, say, include the pods in the index.
I haven't worked with pods yet but in my upcoming project we need some custom post types so we are looking at using pods for this however, we also need a very precise and comprehensive search of all data on the site. My question is, has any of the pods team members seen this search plugin and are there plans to create a pods plugin for this plugin :) ?
I'm also quite happy to create the pods extension for the search plugin when the time comes to implement this for my project but I may need some help.
Anyway, this is just to throw in an idea and see what you guys think.
Cheers, Robert
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I released a plugin that works like Sphider but it's native to WP (as opposed to a third-party script integrated).
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-engine/
Also, Pods 2.0 will allow you to migrate your content into Pods-based Custom Post Types, which will make the content searchable by WP.
That sounds like a great idea. Let us know what you come up with, or when you need some help.
Hi there,
any more news on how to search through pods entries from wordpress?
By the way, I've seen the Search API, and I'm currently in development with a new plugin that will integrate with it. The plan for this plugin is to replace the WP search itself, with a real local search indexer. Like having a Google on your site, that you update yourself, that updates when you update your pages, all under your control.
I'm pushing for a public release later this month, right now it's in the development / testing stages.
I'm actually in an extremely similar boat to phlux0r in terms of the kind of site my organization and I are setting out to build (i.e., cocktail of WP Pages/Posts and multiple Pod types, all of which will need to be globally findable through one search function).
Humbly (and with gratitude for the speed of work on Pods overall), sc0tt, what kind of timeline do you think you're looking at for a public release of your (awesome-sounding) Search plugin? I'm looking extremely forward to getting my hands dirty with a proof-of-concept that Pods can do what we need (and I've every reason to believe that it can).
would like to have more information about this. So at the moment all the content in pods would be excluded by the default wordpress search results right?
Getting closer to a public release?
I've had good luck with Sphider, available as a WP plugin:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sphider/
@sc0ttkclark, thanks for the link.
I've just downloaded and activated the plugin and getting the following error:
Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in <path_to_wp>\wp-includes\post.php on line 1426
