[MOBY-dev] the Search function on biomoby.org

[Twigger Simon]

Just to note that I havent done anything yet - so any improvements  
you may have noted are not due to anything I did! =)

I checked and we do have the plugin installed and activated to search  
both posts and pages. The pages are going to be things inside  
wordpress though and it stores them in the db I believe so Im not  
sure that merely being in the filesystem somewhere is going to count.  
I'll go on a hunt for something that might address this, I also saw  
that wordpress 2 has come out, I'll see what new features that brings  
too.

I see what you mean about the style problem for the search results,  
I'll have a stab at improving that.

S.

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On Feb 10, 2006, at 1:30 PM, Frank Gibbons wrote:

> Simon,
>
> That's a big improvement on what we had before. Can we tweak the  
> style a
> little though? If I search for "constructing", I get a single  
> result, which
> looks like plain text. It's not until I mouse over the heading  
> "BioMoby
> Perl Service Providers Tutorial" that I realise it's a link. That's  
> becuase
> it's just big bold black text. Is there some way to format the  
> results, so
> that the heading comes out as something that's more obviously a link?
> (Color being the usual indicator for a link, my vote would be that it
> follow the style of the other links on the page.)
>
> Great work,
>
> -Frank
>
>
> At 01:43 PM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I might have missed the first part of this but it should be possible
>> to add in functionality to search static pages too - I did this via a
>> plug-in for one of my own wordpress installations. Im not sure where
>> the CVS_CONTENT folder is in relation to the wordpress file hierarchy
>> but I'll log in and see if I installed the plugin on the MOBY site
>> and if not, I'll add it in and we'll see what happens...
>>
>> Simon.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
>> Medical College of Wisconsin
>> 8701 Watertown Plank Road,
>> Milwaukee, WI, USA
>> tel: 414-456-8802
>> fax: 414-456-6595
>> AIM/iChat: simontatmcw
>>
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:32 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
>>
>>> I take that back - it does work!  However, it only searches through
>>> what
>>> has been "blogged", not through the full content of the site  
>>> (i.e. it
>>> excludes what is in the CVS_CONTENT folder)
>>>
>>> I don't know how easy it would be to modify this behaviour, as the
>>> search utility is part of Wordpress...
>>>
>>> M
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> ...his last words were 'Hey guys!  Watch this!'
>>> --
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>>> Dept. of Medical Genetics
>>> University of British Columbia
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>>>        a pipe between physical locations on the planet.
>>> What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and
>>> interesting
>>>       that communication has become more than a conduit,
>>>        it has become a destination in its own right..."
>>>
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