Is there a WP search plugin?

  • I’m going to be making a new WP site for a client to replace this 9 year old one that’s running on/limited to PHP 5.6. They also have an old ASP 3.5 search engine so visitors can search for a sewing professional by name, location or category. We need upgrade the hosting so we can get the PHP version up to date, but I’m guessing the ASP version will also be higher on the new hosting and potentially break the search engine.

    Anyone know if there’s a WP Plugin that I can use to replace the old search engine? I’ve searched plugins here and on Google, didn’t find anything.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    The plugin “relevanssi” allows you to extend the built-in search for WP.

    Thread Starter DebT

    (@debbiet)

    Thanks, but that’s not exactly what I need. I need something separate from the built-in WP search so visitors to the site can search from a list of specialists by either name, specialty or location.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Are you using a custom post type for the specialists? And perhaps custom taxonomies for specialty and location?

    Thread Starter DebT

    (@debbiet)

    Thanks Steven. I wasn’t hoping to find a plugin that would use the old database, there are only 30 people in it so it’s not a big deal for me to re-enter the information. I’m not familiar with custom post types and taxonomies, I’ll look into that.

    Thanks for your time.

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    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

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    You’re not going to find a plugin to search a custom database outside of WordPress. That will require custom code. Were I redoing your site, I’d move all that data into WordPress using custom post types and taxonomies.

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