[wp-docs] Codex Fixes Please

Wed Mar 28 21:00:03 UTC 2012

When I run a search, it comes up with content, just not codex-specific content. Takes a minute, since the Google search is worse than the old Yahoo one.

And THAT bakes my brain a little. o.O

On 28 Mar 2012, at 2:39:45PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:

> When the user was in the Codex, the search was limited to the Codex. It used to say "search Codex" in the search field. We set it up that way ages ago. Either way, it stopped working a while ago. I get nothing when I use the search box at the top. 
> 
> Is anyone else getting nothing in the searches? 
> 
> Lorelle
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> It's not broken, it's just labeled wrong.
> 
> The header search box searches all of WordPress.org. This is
> site-wide, and intentional.
> 
> The incorrect label will eventually be fixed.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Lorelle on WordPress
> <lorelleonwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks. I mean the search at the top of the page. That's broken. It's the
> > one that EVERYONE uses, not just those who know a few tricks. :D It works on
> > the rest of the site but not when "in" the Codex.
> >
> > There are ways to prevent indexing the User pages through robots.txt, etc.,
> > too, the easy way out.
> >
> > As for those with the capacity to run scripts in the maintenance folder...I
> > have no clue who that would be any more.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Lorelle
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Mika A Epstein <ipstenu at ipstenu.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Is the CODEX search broken -- http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Search
> >>
> >> Or do you mean the search at the top of the pages that goes
> >> to http://wordpress.org/search/ ? Those are different things.
> >>
> >> As for deleted pages... Welcome to a Mediawiki flaw. It's moronic but the
> >> way Google and MediaWiki talk, this is what they WANT to happen. :/ It's
> >> useful to non-Admins when someone nukes a page, but the rest of the time I
> >> sit and wonder what they were smoking.
> >>
> >> Someone with ssh access would have to run the following scripts:
> >>
> >> Go to the maintenance folder and run
> >>
> >> $ php purgeoldtext.php
> >>
> >> (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PurgeOldText.php That will
> >> delete all revisions for all deleted pages.)
> >>
> >> Then you'd probably want to run either rebuildall.php or
> >> rebuildrecentchanges.php. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Rebuildall.php is
> >> documented but the other's pretty obvious.
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Mika A Epstein (Ipstenu)
> >> Half-Elf Support Rogue and Volunteer WordPress Forum Moderator
> >>
> >> On 27 Mar 2012, at 7:42:55PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:
> >>
> >> The search on the Codex has been broken for a while. Any chance of fixing
> >> that soon?
> >>
> >> I'm now using Google's site search and looking up video embeds I found:
> >>
> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Viva_viagra_video_commercial
> >>
> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Levitra_funny_video
> >>
> >> These are spams that were deleted but they show up in Google search
> >> results as a deleted page (WTF?), which is as good as them being left there
> >> to be found. The key issue is that we've asked since the beginning to have
> >> User pages blocked from search results and search engines. Any chance of
> >> that happening since another search I did on viagra, sex, porn, and our
> >> other favorite words on the Codex turned up more deleted page results with
> >> the deleted content accessible in the page's content?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Lorelle
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