Is this for BuddyPress or bbPress?
For bbPress, search is a weak point.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/search-is-broken-after-wp-integration
Sorry, forgot to mention that it’s a bbPress install integrated with WP (no “deep” integration).
Thanks for the link, it seems to be a common problem, I wonder if it’ll be fixed in a future release…
Cheers,
Gene
It might be fixed, but I wouldn’t wait for that day to make the search better on your site.
I turned off the search on one of my forums because it was so bad and frequently irrelevant. I wonder if a Google CSE would be a better fit if your forum relies heavily on search?
http://www.google.com/cse/
For searching this forum here, I usually search google like site:bbpress.org/forums/ whatever – but that relies on the content already having been indexed by Google. I’m not usually trying to find something from the past few days; usually it’s something I remember specifically but can’t remember who wrote it or when. If I search for these forums for the phrase, with Google, I typically find it.
Hi Chris and thanks for the info.
Cheers,
Gene
