[wp-hackers] Excluding pages/posts from search

[Stephen Rider]

He beat me to it.  +1 on everything Hacker Scot just said.

For the "Thank You' Page example, we would also need a means for  
arbitrary pages to be excluded from Page Lists.  Yes, again, there's  
the exclude list, but a boolean (exposable vi plugin) would be nice  
here as well.

Maybe our 2-state boolean can be a three-state variable:  
ListsAndSearch|ListsOnly|None

...or am I over-thinking things again?

Stephen

On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:07 AM, Hacker Scot wrote:

> What if there were a boolean "searchable" field in each of  
> wp_posts, wp_comments, wp_users, and possibly other tables as  
> necessary.
>
> 0 = not searchable
> 1 = searchable
>
> WP could keep its current default search behavior by setting these  
> values to the current standards (posts yes, pages no, comments no).  
> But with that small amount of metadata available for all content  
> types, a good Search Enhancer plugin could do all of:
>
> - Provide a "Searchable?" checkbox in all post, page, and comment  
> editing interfaces (granularity)
> - Let the admin change the site-wide defaults
> - Let the admin batch-edit current settings (e.g. turn all comments  
> searchability on or off)
>
> A lot of functionality could be made available to search plugins  
> with a few small table modifications and very little change to WP  
> core.