When I run a search, it comes up with content, just not codex-specific content. Takes a minute, since the Google search is worse than the old Yahoo one.
And THAT bakes my brain a little. o.O On 28 Mar 2012, at 2:39:45PM, Lorelle on WordPress wrote: > When the user was in the Codex, the search was limited to the Codex. It used > to say "search Codex" in the search field. We set it up that way ages ago. > Either way, it stopped working a while ago. I get nothing when I use the > search box at the top. > > Is anyone else getting nothing in the searches? > > Lorelle > > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
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