The default search on Wordpress wasn’t going to be suitable for the product search I wanted to implement on Worm Sign T-Shirts. On the default theme, standard search will give you a results page that contains the pages and posts that were found as a clickable title and excerpt – a text only sample of the the pages content. This wasn’t going to good enough for a T-Shirt store. Using 2 plugins I was able to define the pages and posts I wanted to be included in the search, as well as pages and posts that I didn’t want to be included, and to include an image from the product page as the main focus of the search results.

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On my way to work I drive past a house, the owner currently has their car for sale – I’m not 100% sure what the car is because the only you get is that there is a sandwich board outside with 3 words chalked on; “Car for Sale” Now, I can’t imagine anybody driving past [...]

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another week starts and another search engine is released into the world wild web with it’s aim to slay the mighty google dragon. cuil presents it’s search engine results like blocks of magazine snippets, 3 columns and four rows of reports on websites that it has found for you from it’s very big database – [...]

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for those of you lucky enough to be using a mac and to use safari as your browser of choice (like me!) then i can’t recommend this plug-in highly enough. it’s a brilliant update of the default search box. it’s like spotlight – but for the web – so it brings up search results as [...]

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