<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 December 2015 at 17:55, Ben Bakelaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bakelaar@rutgers.edu" target="_blank">bakelaar@rutgers.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have a full “global” search operational within their Wordpress network? If so, can you share, and what plugin are you using?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In my case it needs to be an internal search, not an approximation such as a Google advanced search “site:<a href="http://domain.xyz.edu" target="_blank">domain.xyz.edu</a> your search here” – because some of our sub-sites have their own domains (<a href="http://somethingelse.xyz.edu" target="_blank">somethingelse.xyz.edu</a>).</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I would also love to see content categorization (site, post, page, image) but that might be asking too much.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)"></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I use WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-mu-sitewide-tags/</a>) which, despite it's name, does what you need. </div><div class="gmail_quote">It works by copying every post (and optional pages too) to a designated "tags" sub-site as it is published/updated. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I have set it up as <a href="http://search.example.com">search.example.com</a> on one client site and have a "global" search form on all sites which submits to this search site. Thus doing an ordinary WP search on a site which contains all posts. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">In our case we limit the number of posts to a total of 50,000 latest posts from all sites, just for performance reasons. We feel that's enough. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Everything is still findable on the original sites, of course.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">We use a custom results display so we can distinguish between different types of content. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">You have control over which meta data gets duplicated, so if you have some customised meta data that could also be copied over and used in the search. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Hope that helps,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best regards,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Mike</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">--</div></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Mike Little</b><div><div><b>WordPress Specialist</b></div><div><br></div><div>Web: <a href="http://mikelittle.org/" target="_blank">mikelittle.org</a></div><div>Skype: mike.little.zed1</div><div>Twitter: @mikelittlezed1</div><div>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/mikelittle" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/mikelittle</a></div><div><div>Newsletter: <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://mikelittle.org/subscribe" target="_blank">http://mikelittle.org/subscribe</a></span></div></div><div><br></div><div>Founder and Director</div><div><b>Zed1.com Limited</b></div><a href="http://zed1.com/" target="_blank">http://zed1.com/</a></div><div>Registered in England & Wales, no. 6745562</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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