It seems to me as if search in bbPress 0.9x neither uses tags, nor uses headlines to find posts/topics.

Can anybody confirm this?

Is there an simple solution?

[@walkerevans Member 15 years, 12 months ago]

I was just thinking the same thing. I’ve run a few tests and it doesn’t appear to search tags or headlines.

If anyone knows a fix it would be great to hear one!

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 12 months ago]

There was a recent discussion about how awful search is:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/advanced-search-options-where-and-what-are-they

There was also an unrelated discussion that became related to search (at WordPress.org and bbPress.org):

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/12/24/wordpress-forum-user-guide/#comments

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 12 months ago]

_ck_ wrote a Super Search plugin that’s much more advanced than the normal search:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/super-search/

I haven’t tried it out yet but it looks pretty cool!

[@walkerevans Member 15 years, 12 months ago]

Thanks for the links, Chris. As bad as the search is in BBPress, it’s still better than phpBB2 (which I’m migrating from).

And John, I saw the Super Search, but didn’t want to use it since it’s in super-alpha mode and I need something that will also search WP posts, and it doesn’t seem like that plugin does that. At least not yet. So for now I’m using the WP search plugin: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wp-search/

Just wondered if there was any way to get Tags/Titles in the existing forum search. Hrm.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 12 months ago]

Ah ok, didn’t realize you wanted something to search both WordPress and bbPress. I don’t know if any plugins natively support that – I need to do something similar on my site, but use Google’s custom search engine to pull it off:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

[@ipstenu Moderator 15 years, 11 months ago]

I use a google search on my site for the forums (with a custom return page) and it works pretty well. I have it search my domain.net and it gets WP and BB in one.

[@johnhiler Member 15 years, 11 months ago]

Yah, Google search is the best way I know to search multiple *Press sites.

I should highlight some downsides though:

* The search is not necessarily live; it’s searching Google’s version of the site, not your live site. So it’s especially important to have live Google Sitemaps on any WordPress or bbPress installs you want searched.

* You want to make sure that any subdomains do a good job of hiding pages that you don’t want searched. For example, I have MediaWiki on a subdomain… which does a bad job of hiding the editable version of each page (and other random pages too, like WhatLinksHere). I fixed that with plugins and other hacks, but it cluttered my search results for a while.

Hmm, those are the big downsides. Overall though, you can’t beat the ease of implementation of a Google custom search engine!

[@sambauers Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Topic titles are included in searches in 1.0

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Starting with what revision or alpha version, Sam?