[wp-hackers] Excluding pages/posts from search

[Hacker Scot]

> From: Alex King <lists at alexking.org>
> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Excluding pages/posts from search

> What I'm proposing is a standard way for all of these features and
> functions (and plugins, like the sitemaps plugin) to know to exclude
> this page by default.


What if there were a boolean "searchable" field in each of wp_posts,  
wp_comments, wp_users, and possibly other tables as necessary.

0 = not searchable
1 = searchable

WP could keep its current default search behavior by setting these  
values to the current standards (posts yes, pages no, comments no).  
But with that small amount of metadata available for all content  
types, a good Search Enhancer plugin could do all of:

- Provide a "Searchable?" checkbox in all post, page, and comment  
editing interfaces (granularity)
- Let the admin change the site-wide defaults
- Let the admin batch-edit current settings (e.g. turn all comments  
searchability on or off)

A lot of functionality could be made available to search plugins with  
a few small table modifications and very little change to WP core.

./s