[wp-hackers] Re: Fwd: GSOC Advanced Search

[Varuna Jayasiri]

Hi,

 I have published my application here:
http://www.xvpj.net/gsoc-09-application-wordpress-advance-search/

Please give any comments or suggestions

Thank you
 Varuna


On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Lloyd Budd <lloydomattic at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 29, 9:14 am, Varuna Jayasiri <vpjayas... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm Varuna Jayasiri, a second year undergraduate student at University of
> > Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am interested in working in the improved search
> > feature project idea for wordpress.
> >
> > I would like to know whether this project should be developed as a
> > completely new feature (a new search UI/API and back end search facility)
> or
> > as a set of modifications to the WP_Query class to enable more ways to
> > search with a new search UI.
> >
> > Also are there any resources which I should go through in order to get a
> > better understanding about this project.
>
> Hi Varuna,
>
> Incrementally developing a solution based on the existing
> infrastructure is almost always a good idea.
>
> In terms of resources, I would also look at the existing plugins in
> this space and take not of the user experience of other services
> advanced search. It might also be interesting to look at the
> competitive experiences for MT, Drupal, etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Lloyd
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