Thursday, August 18th, 2005 at 1:52 PM
Here’s a preview image of what I’m working on for the “Show All” results page for SpotlightSiteSearch. At the moment, the script simply redirects you to the default WordPress search page, showing you only posts. The new menu, as well as the search page, will feature the ability to search not only posts, but comments, links (powered by del.icio.us), and even images (powered by Flickr).
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That’s really nice - have you considered / would you have enough time to make a version which is more generic in that it could be used easily to search a non - wordpress site?
I’m not sure how to go about making a generic version for non-WordPress sites, as each blogging system has it’s own way of accessing and structuring the databases involved. Some don’t use MySQL, as well, causing further complications. I think the best option may be to build plugins for specific blogging systems, as there aren’t too many out there…
I’m still working on the required caching, as I don’t want the search to take forever while waiting for several sites to respond. Also, I don’t want to hit other sites for every third letter someone types on my site — it’s much better to keep everything (as much as possible) in one place.