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.
@Morgan
We would also like to use the theme’s search box and have it search all the sub-domains by default – can this be done?
Thanks!
Thant you for this plugin.
Have you done the same thing for multi domains using wordpress
Where can i found the french translation that is not in the package.
Hello!
Where can I sent the translation (pt_PT) that I made?
cheers
@aliciagh
Thanks for a neat and simple way to search a network of sites! I have 2 questions for you:
1 – Can «Search by default on pages» be included when using the shortcode for form display?
2 – How can I exclude search results from the main site? I only need results from other sites in the network.
Thanks again!
There’s an error on excerpt=»no»
locate in shortcodes.php around line 234:
When I put excerpt = «no», it displays the same as if I would’ve put «yes». I had to comment out the above command in the else statement to get it working correctly.
@JAnjos I just sent an email asking for the translation. Thanks!!! You can find your contribution in the next version.
@Denis You can find French translation since version 1.2.5
@Mike @7dou Thanks! I’ll try to develop your suggestion for the next version.
@T I’ve checked it in different installations and the shortcode option works. There are two funtions: ms_global_search_get_the_excerpt and ms_global_search_get_the_content. The first function gets the content and builds the excerpt if it doesn’t exist.
Can you put here your website? I’ll check the operation of the plugin
Just fixed an issue with the plugin where the excerpts were not displaying correctly. We had to add one line into the shortcodes.php file to strip html tags (strip_tags), right before line 41 (strip_shortcodes).
$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);Hope you can work that into the next update – Cheers!