It's not broken, it's just labeled wrong. The header search box searches all of WordPress.org. This is site-wide, and intentional.
The incorrect label will eventually be fixed. -Otto On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Lorelle on WordPress <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I mean the search at the top of the page. That's broken. It's the > one that EVERYONE uses, not just those who know a few tricks. :D It works on > the rest of the site but not when "in" the Codex. > > There are ways to prevent indexing the User pages through robots.txt, etc., > too, the easy way out. > > As for those with the capacity to run scripts in the maintenance folder...I > have no clue who that would be any more. > > Thanks! > > Lorelle > > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Mika A Epstein <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Is the CODEX search broken -- http://codex.wordpress.org/Special:Search >> >> Or do you mean the search at the top of the pages that goes >> to http://wordpress.org/search/ ? Those are different things. >> >> As for deleted pages... Welcome to a Mediawiki flaw. It's moronic but the >> way Google and MediaWiki talk, this is what they WANT to happen. :/ It's >> useful to non-Admins when someone nukes a page, but the rest of the time I >> sit and wonder what they were smoking. >> >> Someone with ssh access would have to run the following scripts: >> >> Go to the maintenance folder and run >> >> $ php purgeoldtext.php >> >> (see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:PurgeOldText.php That will >> delete all revisions for all deleted pages.) >> >> Then you'd probably want to run either rebuildall.php or >> rebuildrecentchanges.php. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Rebuildall.php is >> documented but the other's pretty obvious. >> >> --- >> Mika A Epstein (Ipstenu) >> Half-Elf Support Rogue and Volunteer WordPress Forum Moderator >> >> On 27 Mar 2012, at 7:42:55PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote: >> >> The search on the Codex has been broken for a while. Any chance of fixing >> that soon? >> >> I'm now using Google's site search and looking up video embeds I found: >> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Viva_viagra_video_commercial >> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Levitra_funny_video >> >> These are spams that were deleted but they show up in Google search >> results as a deleted page (WTF?), which is as good as them being left there >> to be found. The key issue is that we've asked since the beginning to have >> User pages blocked from search results and search engines. Any chance of >> that happening since another search I did on viagra, sex, porn, and our >> other favorite words on the Codex turned up more deleted page results with >> the deleted content accessible in the page's content? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Lorelle >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-docs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-docs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >> > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
