After several quiet months the time has finally come for us to announce a new release. Truth is that after the initial version, we weren’t 100% satisfied with our plugin and returned to the drawing board.
What started as a plugin to replace the WordPress Search with, now has been taken to a whole new level and includes several new features:
- Exclude entries and categories from being indexed;
- Add related posts to your entries;
- Click through statistics for search results and related posts;
- Replace the standard tracker URL with your own shortURL
Add Related Posts to Your Entries
One of the most popular and asked for extensions to WordPress are related posts. We took the concept a level further than existing plugins and included related posts across your search channel options. Just like the search feature of our plugin, the related posts will return results of all the domains listed in your account.
Related posts are completely customisable in look and CSS and the options can be added directly in the plugin configuration panel.
Tip: To display your related post results horizontally, change the vertical trigger in the Related Posts Main Template field.
You can easily add a thumbnail to your results as well by inserting {postimg} to the Related Post Row Template field.
Exclude Entries and Categories
With the opportunity to show results and related posts from several domains across your search channel, we thought that it would be interesting to offer the opportunity to exclude URLs, and even complete categories, from your search. Go to the ‘Other’ tab in your WordPress Search Plugin panel and find a list of your categories and a field where you can enter any URL you would not wish to be indexed.
Tracker and Custom ShortURL
Most related post plugins will do what it says on the tin but too often as a user no feedback (read: statistics) are provided. We integrated a standard tracker URL (t.search-plugins.com) to allow you to easily follow statistics and click through rates for your search results and related posts.
For premium users we included the option to replace the standard tracker URL with your own custom shortURL. To assure optimal compatibility with previous custom shortURL platforms you might have used, the next release will automatically import your shortURLs from these platforms.
Click Through Stats
When using the shortURL, or default tracker URL, you can now see how many click through you receive every day, as well as receive extensive statistics regarding the origin of your clicks and on which domain you receive most clicks.
Statistics can be sorted by date, URl, country and host.
Replace WordPress Standard Search
Of course let’s not forget the main feature of our plugin: replace the search function of WordPress and have search results delivered from your complete network.
BETA Launch
Over the next days we are sending out BETA invites to everyone who has signed up already. Please contact us with the email address you used and your API key to be upgraded to a Premium plan.
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Hi,
does your search plugin allows me to search across 2 different WP blog websites?
e.g. a.domain.com and b.domain.com both hosting separate WP?
thanks,
James Tan
Hi James,
Yes our plugin allows you to do exactly that. You can also add WP blogs hosted at other domains, or even sites not belonging to you (to create a related search channel).
Can your plugin be used to search user profiles?