YD Search Functions
Display WordPress search results like Google! This WordPress plugin installs a set of new template functions that lets you customize the way search results are displayed in your WordPress search page. You can use on-the-fly generated Google-style text snippets to help make search result abstracts mo
Display WordPress search results like Google!
This WordPress plugin installs a set of new template functions that lets you customize the way search results are displayed in your WordPress search page. You can use on-the-fly generated Google-style text snippets to help make search result abstracts more useful. You can do on-the-fly hit-highlighting (in-line xml-based, not through a cumbersome asynchronous Javascript). Your customized search result snippets being included in the delivered page content, they can be indexed by third-party web search engines.
The CSS styling of snippet results is compatible with Google custom search engine stylesheets for complete integration.
The design of the search result display is highly customizable through the plugin’s settings page: you can set-up if and how the snippet’s date is displayed (localized date display is supported). You can choose the abstract/snippet length and the way highlighted search hits are rendered.
For an example of what it can look like, look here: http://www.nogent-citoyen.com/recherche/tour+eiffel (in this example, the left columns displays WordPress-generated results using this plugin, while the right column displays asynchronous Google custom search engine results)
Check-out what your visitors are searching for!
The plugin installs a new dashboard (admin panel widget) which shows you in real time what your users are searching for on your blog (top-search listing, basic search statistics). It implements search logging, search statistics, and gives you a most-searched widget and template function to display the list of top-searches . The most frequently searched listing is manageable in your admin panel: you can choose to reset counters for any search expression, or ban that expression from being listed. Most spiders and spam-robots are filtered-out of the search counter to prevent search link-spamming.
The plugin has its own admin options/settings page.
It is fully internationalized . The search functions are UTF-8 multibyte compatible and do take care of accentuated text. The date display supports localization issues.
Base package includes .pot file for translation of the interface, and English and French versions.
NB: although already fully functional, this plugin is still in active development stage, and new features are added on a regular basis to help further improve search-result customization and display.
