[wp-docs] Search feature

[Lorelle VanFossen]

As was just complained about, the search feature on the Codex does not 
return appropriate results. The new feature of restricting search 
results to documentation or forums is brilliant and very welcome. I 
continue to hear complaints about the search results. It would be lovely 
to have this cleaned up.

Results continue to include user pages, talk pages, and pages which do 
not meet the needs of the searcher. We've asked repeatedly to have pages 
labeled "user:", "codex:" and "talk:" be removed from public search 
results. I just did a search for "header art", a commonly searched 
phrase, and on the first page of the search results I found the first 
article as a good search result, leading to the WordPress lesson on 
header art, then at the bottom of the list a result for the article on 
the archiecture of 1.5 Themes. The rest of the 8 links were to User, 
Talk or Codex pages, completely useless references. Hey, 2 out of 10 
ain't bad, but it isn't helpful.

If there was a way to restrict the user, codex, and talk pages to only 
those logged in, the WordPress world would be a smiley, happy face for 
many WordPress volunteers. For the users, the Codex would be really a 
viable manual, helping them find the information they are looking for.

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Lorelle VanFossen
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