When I try to use the search box just below the red navigational bar at the top right corner of this forum’s page..and enter in ANYTHING, i always get bounced to the URL http://buddypress.org/?s

What am I doing wrong here? Would like to be able to search for certain forum topics/threads with keywords, but not happening. Much thanks,

Brian

[@peeld Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

I’ve had this issue for some time now – they’ve told me they’re working on it, but my posts on the topic typically get deleted

[@topracer Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

OK, so the search functionality doesn’t work then. Bummer. Kinda hard to look for other posts (and thereby eliminate redundant posts) w/out that ability. Hmmm…. Anyhow, thats @peeld.

[@foxly Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

@topracer @peeld

Search on buddypress.org has never worked properly and probably never will work properly. This is because proper, natural-language search is a hard problem that the developers behind WordPress and Buddypress don’t have any experience with.

The most efficient way to search buddypress.org is to go to Google and type in

“site:buddypress.org whatever you’re searching for”

^F^

[@topracer Participant 12 years, 11 months ago]

Wow. I’ve been using the google approach, but just assumed that their search functionality had to work. Virtually every CMS site I look at has a search box on it. If it truly is a element that can’t be fixed….what about integrating at least a Google search box on the site. Hmmm.

Thanks @foxly for the update.

[@chattpc Member 12 years, 11 months ago]

Google sucks for searching this forum……… Takes me hours to solve issues on my own

[@livingos Participant 12 years, 7 months ago]

agree, this forum is next to useless without a proper search function.

[@djpaul Keymaster 12 years, 7 months ago]

There’s not much point in digging up a three month old topic, with a post like that. Closing thread.