[wp-hackers] wp.org/extend/plugin search function sucks.

[Otto]

Yeah, I've been using this, and limiting it to 6 plugins is just awful
when the search is so blowful.

It really, really needs paging. Or a better search engine. Or a way to
directly install a given plugin if you're on the extend website or
know it's url or some such thing...


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:47 AM, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:
> Just a note:
> WordPress 2.7 includes a Plugin installer, Which allows you to browse
> through the WordPress.org/extend/plugins/ directory from within WordPress.
> It allows searching via a Term, or author, or tag surfing. (And also has
> Page'd search results for everything)
>
> Currently the Views (Latest relesaes, recently updated, popular plugins,
> etc) are currently limited to 6-plugins, and are pretty much static, I'm
> hoping to get that a bit more fleshy in the coming future.
>
> However, Its using the same search engine as WordPress.org/extend/plugins/
> is using, so it'll be limited to the same result sets (but it'll have
> paging..)
>
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:42:14 +1000, Ozh <ozh at planetozh.com> wrote:
>
>> Actually, much better results ... Thanks for this Joost
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Joost de Valk <joost at joostdevalk.nl>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Use this custom search engine I just created:
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=006835583451239722573:15duy8wtjos
>>>
>>> and you should be good :)
>>>
>>> To keep remembering this thing I've made a redirect:
>>>
>>> http://yoast.com/out/wpsearch/
>>>
>>> I've made some tweaks to it so it won't show indexed search result pages,
>>> tag pages, stats pages etc.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Joost
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joost de Valk
>>> http://yoast.com/
>>>
>>> P.S. Join my WordPress Plugin & SEO mailing list, and I'll teach you all
>>> I
>>> know! Just go to:
>>>
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>>> ...to get weekly WordPress Plugin news, SEO tips for your blog and more!
>>>
>>> On Aug 22, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Eric Marden wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> No, it's always sucked.
>>>>
>>>> I find tag surfing to be a much better search tool for the plugin db.
>>>>
>>>> -e
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