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Search Fixer

Description

Search Fixer makes โ€œprettyโ€ search links work properly. A pretty search link usually looks like this:
http://example.com/search/waldo
Because of a bug in WordPress, pretty search links with spaces in them do not work. Search Fixer fixes that bug.

If you use Search Meterโ€˜s widgets, you should install Search Fixer too.

Technical details

The bug is WordPress bug 13961. This prevents โ€œprettyโ€ search URLs from working properly. For example, http://example.com/search/hello%20world should search the example.com blog for the words โ€œhelloโ€ and โ€œworldโ€, but because of the bug it actually searches for โ€œhello%20worldโ€ and fails to find anything.

When the WordPress bug is fixed (probably sometime in 2011) Search Fixer will no longer be necessary. I will keep Search Fixer up to date so it won’t interfere when the WordPress bug gets fixed.

Installation

Simply install and activate through the โ€˜Pluginsโ€™ menu in WordPress.

If you want to install manually, upload search-fixer.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory and then activate the plugin through the โ€˜Pluginsโ€™ menu in WordPress.

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

2.0

  • Search links to multi-word searches now work. For example, a search link for โ€œhello worldโ€ will find posts that contain those two words anywhere in the post.

1.0

  • Internal version, not publicly released.
  • Search links function correctly, but multi-word searches do not work. For example, a search link for โ€œhello worldโ€ will only find posts that contain that exact phrase.