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.
@admin The database user defined in wp_config.php have to have the “create view” privilege and the “drop” privilege. I’m talking about MySQL privileges.
Create view and drop view were added int MySQL 5.0.1 so the plugin requires MySQL 5.0.1 or greater
Hi I just updated your muliti site global search plugin hoping it would fix the problem I have been having with it. I can’t install it, I get the error that either I don’t have sufficient add drop permissions, which I know I do have, or the number of columns in the query don’t match up. Is there some way I can check on the number of columns in the database, perhaps there was an extra column added at some point.
@Frank I’ve just find the solution to your problem, I think. But I’m very busy this days, I’ll update the plugin as soon as posible.
Thanks!!
I get this «Multisite Global Search requires multisite installation. Please create a network first, or deactivate Multisite Global Search.» when I try to activate your plugin on my wordpress multi-site install.
It should be noted that I activated the multi-site using the following plugin:
Enable Multi-Site
First, THANK YOU thank you for this plug in… I’ve gotten it to search and display results in my blog.
However, I am hoping you can please help – I have it configured through the widget as a horizontal display, but I need to remove all the extra choices that show in the plugin – how can I remove those features so that only a search box and search button appear?
Again, thank you so much for sharing all your hard work, and continuing to help the community…
Hello! It seems to be a very useful plugin. I have just begun using it, and it looks promising. I have created a translation in Norwegian. Where can I send the .po and .mo files?
@Tore Johnny Send the translation to aliciagh@usal.es and I’ll add to the next version. Thanks!!
@dgodfather
Hi dgodfather.
I got this problem also. Did you already find a solution?
Regards
Horst
Just like @dgodfather & Horst are getting, add me to the list of “Multisite Global Search requires multisite installation. Please create a network first, or deactivate Multisite Global Search.”
Any fix for this? Thanks!
Hello again, and thank you for a great plugin. I have been using the plugin for about a month now, and it works great. However, I have a couple of suggestions for the next version. My website is more like a CMS than a blog, really, and I am not sure that everyone who uses it understand the different between posts and pages. Therefore I would like to know if it is possible to set the plugin to always perform searches also in pages (administrative choice). The choices that are available now are just great, but I think for some websites it would be better to hide them and only make them available for the admins. I have not enough php knowledge to experiment with this myself.