George Stephanis 9:26 pm on January 15, 2014
Tags: Omnisearch ( 8 ), search ( 4 )

Search Initiative: On Hold

Due to a lot of stuff in my lap for the next few months, I don’t have the time to keep chasing down things for Search. If anyone would like to take point, I’d be glad to help in any way possible, I just don’t have the time to wrangle it personally for the foreseeable future.

#omnisearch, #search

utkarshd_42 5:40 pm on March 7, 2014

Hi sir,
I would like to work on the search initiative for the coming GSoC 2014. Can you suggest me as to how to proceed further with the code that has already been completed?
And what will be my objectives that I have to complete.
- George Stephanis 5:44 pm on March 7, 2014
  
  Have you read the history of posts on this p2 already?
  - Utkarsh Dixit 6:57 pm on March 7, 2014
    
    Yes, i’ve already read the entire history of posts. In the ideas page the objectives weren’t specified clearly and i don’t know whether or not you were active on the mailing list, so had to comment here
  - Utkarsh Dixit 7:42 pm on March 7, 2014
    
    I’m also going through the codebase of the current pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party available for omnisearch. Hoping to work for the search initiative 🙂
- Utkarsh Dixit 4:51 am on March 9, 2014
  
  Hi sir,
  Can you suggest me some other improvements that you would like to see in the search initiative. Even the ideas that haven’t yet been planned or thought of completely. Hope that I will be able to complete most of them 🙂
- Utkarsh Dixit 5:50 pm on March 9, 2014
  
  Hi sir,
  This includes all the patches I have worked on till now, including the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. for asynchronous search. Please look into it. Its my first time contributing to WordPress so my code might not be upto the par or possible full of bugs. Please suggest changes, approaches, ideas anything that you think might help me.
  
  https://github.com/utkarshd420/omnisearch-patch/
Utkarsh Dixit 5:06 am on March 8, 2014

“the biggest task at present seems to be unifying all the search forms in the administrative interface to feed into a global search ”

We could already use the code given for omni search pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party and could probably change the action parameter of each search form in the adminadmin (and super admin) panel with a hidden input of

<form id="posts-filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output." action="” method=”get”>

Plugin should be activated for this… Therefore we can use the plugin already build to unify all the search fields in the admin panel..
is this approach feasible? It works well (I’ve tried for the search posts form)..
Utkarsh Dixit 2:18 pm on March 8, 2014

I’ve also tweaked the codebase ,of the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, a little now it shows the the no. of posts (if found).. Not much a change, but now I have the basic understanding of the way this plugin works.. Waiting for some further updates 🙂
Utkarsh Dixit 11:16 am on March 9, 2014

Trying to include the suggestions of posts to search in the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party too, using AJAX to do it… I’ll share the patches one it’s completed. Hoping to complete it soon.
- George Stephanis 9:56 pm on March 9, 2014
  
  Howdy.
  
  Sorry for the delay getting back to you, just a bit overwhelmed with other stuff this weekend.
  
  I’ve actually just added you as a committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party itself — it’s terrific to see someone eager to start working on it.
  
  I’ll respond in more detail to the above tomorrow! 🙂
- George Stephanis 9:57 pm on March 9, 2014
  
  I would suggest in the interim, though, to read up on CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.’s Coding Standards and Styles — things like including spaces, and always using braces for conditionals as an example.
  
  https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/coding-standards/php/
  - Utkarsh Dixit 7:15 pm on March 10, 2014
    
    Thanks for the link. Have gone through all the coding standard. Will use them from the next time. 🙂
    
    Sir, will you be attending this?
    https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/03/10/gsoc-irc-chats/
    - George Stephanis 9:18 pm on March 10, 2014
      
      Yup, I’ll be there. 🙂
      - Utkarsh Dixit 4:49 pm on March 11, 2014
        
        Hi sir,
        Was going across the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. chat logs when came upon this
        
        ” often our search acts more like a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. — if I search for “Jaquith” on the posts screen I see a listtable of posts, it doesn’t say what context (or even necessarily what matched if not the title) in the results ”
        
        I tried making a patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. for it… If the search term is in the post or the content of the page it is displayed as
        
        $title
        …..something something something $search_term something something something….
        
        In each row.
        I had to tweak the wordpress codebase a little ( WPINC\class-wp-posts-list-table and WPINC\class-wp-list-table)
        
        Will upload the patch soon and provide the link on this forum 🙂
      - Utkarsh Dixit 6:15 pm on March 11, 2014
        
        There is a slight mistake in the earlier comment I had made changes in wp-adminadmin (and super admin)/includes/ and not in WPINC. Sorry for the above mistake.
Utkarsh Dixit 7:09 pm on March 11, 2014

https://github.com/utkarshd420/omnisearch-patch

Also updated the patchpatch A special text file that describes changes to code, by identifying the files and lines which are added, removed, and altered. It may also be referred to as a diff. A patch can be applied to a codebase for testing. I have explained here:
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2014/01/15/search-initiative-on-hold/#comment-13044

Hope you will look into it 🙂
Please provide me feedback, bugs and further approaches you would like the search initiative to have. 🙂

PS: tried my best to adhere to the coding standards might have some deviations though, as its my first time contributing to WordPress. Hope you don’t mind. 🙂
Utkarsh Dixit 7:54 pm on March 12, 2014

Hi sir,
This is in regards with the gsoc chat session.. will you be available between 11:30 am to 8:00 pm UTC, tomorrow i.e. 13/3/2014?
I would really like to discuss the current patches that I have provided as well as the new approaches that we can take on improving omnisearch.
Please mention the timings that you will be available at (If you won’t be able to attend during the above time).
Thanks 🙂
- George Stephanis 8:07 pm on March 12, 2014
  
  Just joined the channel now, I should be online around that span. I may be idling, so feel free to poke me there, or on #wordpress if ever needed — `georgestephanis`
Utkarsh Dixit 6:08 pm on March 15, 2014

Hi, couldn’t find you on the IRCIRC Internet Relay Chat, a network where users can have conversations online. IRC channels are used widely by open source projects, and by WordPress. The primary WordPress channels are #wordpress and #wordpress-dev, on irc.freenode.net. Channels so am posting here, following (utkarshdixit11.wordpress.com) is the link to my proposal. please go through it once and suggest me any necessary changes that might be needed. Thanks 🙂

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