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

Sat Feb 11 06:04:51 UTC 2006

If we put a symlink in the wordpress folder will it traverse?

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:00:51 -0800, Twigger Simon <simont at hmgc.mcw.edu>  
wrote:

> 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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>
> Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
> Medical College of Wisconsin
> 8701 Watertown Plank Road,
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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!'
>>>> --
>>>> Mark Wilkinson
>>>> Asst. Professor
>>>> Dept. of Medical Genetics
>>>> University of British Columbia
>>>> PI in Bioinformatics
>>>> iCAPTURE Centre
>>>> St. Paul's Hospital
>>>> Rm. 166, 1081 Burrard St.
>>>> Vancouver, BC, V6Z 1Y6
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>>>> fax: 604 806 9274
>>>>
>>>> "For most of this century we have viewed communications as a
>>>> conduit,
>>>>        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..."
>>>>
>>>>                 Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future
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