Multi sitewide search

You;ve pretty much listed every single free option out there.

https://blogs.voxeo.com/behindtheblog/2010/09/17/update-status-of-gt-search-all-blogs-plugin-for-wordpress-mu/

Get a mini ??

https://www.google.com/enterprise/search/mini.html

Thanks David, it’s good to see that there are more people looking for this. It’s quite strange that there aren’t tons of plugins for this.

TD, I don’t like the default Google search results, so I don’t think I’ll invest in an expensive tool that might also give archives in search results.

I found this plugin, after looking at some of the other options.

https://welcome.totheinter.net/wpsearchmu/

It is a branch of the wpSearch plugin. So far, it works really well with wordpress 3 and multisite enabled (I use subdirectories). I’m not sure about mysql4. I’m on mysql5.

Just follow the basic instructions. You have to install in wp-content> mu-plugins directory and enable the plugin options for each blog. The relevance of the results is much better, paging works and not found messages also.

Sofar I have only 2 problems with it:
– I cannot find a way to exclude certain pages/posts from the results.
– I cannot find a way to exclude custom post types from the results
Which is a real problem.