Make WordPress search more useful

So, we all know it. Most times, the WordPress default search stuff kinda sucks. Someone pointed out to me that 2.6 or 2.7 started searching Page content as well as post content, but in times past it wasn’t like that – it would only search the post content. However, this is a little post on how to make the search stuff a little more useful and less annoying.

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Making child categories recognize parent displays

As I’ve mentioned in this post, this code is old. It’s been brought to my attention over the last few months that it has issues with newer versions of WordPress. it works fine for 2.0.x-2.7.x, but you shouldn’t be running those versions, and apparently it breaks down with 2.8.x+. The known issues i’ve been made aware of thus far: The RSS feed is damaged/nonfunctional. If you are using Custom fields, they will cease to work....

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Make your existing site work with WordPress

One of the big questions you see…well anywhere, really, in regards to WordPress is the desire to integrate it into an existing website. Usually, this is because a business has seen the benefits of adding a “blog” to the site (although most usually use it for “news releases”) and they want it to match their current design, or they want to be able to manage their content easily without going to the extreme of a...

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One Way to Use WordPress as a Shopping Cart

Alrighty then! So I just finished up a site (subcontract, so unfortunately I can’t share it) where we started to code out the site in ZenCart, but ended up plopping it into WordPress. ZenCart seemed a little too powerful for the job, and the client was very familiar with WordPress. Plus they wanted a really specific design, and in the timeframe I was given, there was no way I could pull it off in ZenCart...

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