Easily search through all blogs into your WordPress Multisite posts by post title, post content or post author. Multisite Global Search doesn’t work with single WordPress installation and it must be activated for all sites using «network activate» in the plugins admin panel.
This plugin is based on my other global search plugin, WPMU Global Search. It has some new features but if you want to keep using the older version of WordPress MU, you can install my other plugin.
Currently in the following languages:
- English (en_GB)
- French (fr_FR) by Fabrice Perrinel
- German (de_DE) by Dennis Vorpahl
- Norwegian Bokmal (nb_NO) by Tore Johnny Bråtveit
- Portuguese (pt_PT) by José Anjos
- Romanian (ro_RO) by Alexander Ovsov Web Geek Science
- Russian (ru_RU) by Sam Savinov
- Serbian (sr_RS) by Andrijana Nikolic http://science.webhostinggeeks.com/multisite-global-search
- Slovak (sk_SK) by Branco WebHostingGeeks.com
- Spanish (es_ES)
If you have created your own language pack, or have an update of an existing one, you can send gettext .po and .mo files to me so that I can bundle it into Multisite Global Search.
Requeriments
- WordPress Multisite Installation.
- MySQL 5.0.1 or greater.
- The MySQL user needs to be assigned the ability to «create views» and «drop views» in WordPress database.
- Permalink structure must be diferent to default when widget is activated in a blog of your network.
Features
- Search on posts and pages.
- Put search form into your code.
Multisite_Global_Search::ms_global_search_vertical_form(your_results_page)
Multisite_Global_Search::ms_global_search_horizontal_form(your_results_page)
- Insert search form in templates using a shortcode:
[multisite_search_form]
- Use type attribute to select vertical form or horizontal form. Default attribute value: vertical.
[multisite_search_form type="vertical"]
[multisite_search_form type="horizontal"]
- Use page attribute to change results page URI. Default attribute value: globalsearch.
[multisite_search_form page="multisite-search"]
Search results will be showed in http://your_blog_URL/multisite-search.
- Search results are showed in a page which contents the shortcode:
[multisite_search_result]
- Show excerpted results:
[multisite_search_result excerpt="yes"]
- Multisite Global Search Widget. Show a search form in your sidebar.
- Customizable relative URI for results page.
- Two different form types, vertical and horizontal.
- Search across all network blogs or only in your blogs if you are logged.
- Entries on every site across your installation appear in search results immediately after publication.
- Receive results from your complete blog network, even sites you do not own or control.
- Customizable style sheet for widget and results page.
Download
Download the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Repository: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-global-search/
If plugin works in your WP version, send your vote and push works in the compatibility form.
Hi
Can the search form be used with a shortcode in templates versus the widget?
@Scot No, but I’ll add this feature to the next version. Thanks!
Thank you for your important plugin for multisites.
Can i get searching queries like only excerpted results (some like for example in stream activity in buddypress) ? Can i search by tags or by category ?
Ciao tom
@tom Thanks for your feedback. I’ve just added an shortcode attribute that enable excerpted results.
You can search by post title, post content or post author only. I’ll add searching by tags, categories and comments in future versions.
Thanks!
Hi there,
I tried your plugin but canNOT make it work.
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Hi,
I’ve had a look to your site and seems it’s correctly configured. Can you check if there’re three new tables in your WordPress database (wp_v_posts, wp_v_comments and wp_v_postmeta)?
I can’t seem to get any search results using this plugin. 🙁
@Scot Is multisite option activated? This plugin only works with WordPress multisite installations.
When the plugin is activated, three tables are created in your WordPress database: wp_v_posts, wp_v_comments and wp_v_postmeta. Check it please.
Maybe the database prefix is diferent in your installation, then check that your_prefix_v_posts, your_prefix_v_comments and your_prefix_v_postmeta exists in the database.
If tables don’t exist, try to deactivate and activate the plugin. if tables aren’t yet, can you show me content of your error.log or php_error.log?
Hi
I’m now trying this on a fresh multisite install. I’m getting this error:
Error creating search views in the database. Deactivate Multisite Global Search and check you have create views privilege in your WordPress database.
I do have a different prefix and I’m only seeing v-posts.
@Scot I just update the plugin and it should work. Try it. Thanks for information and sorry for the inconveniences.
Still getting same error on new install with multisite enabled and now with buddypress.