Can the standard Wordpress search or one of the search plugins index another (external to Wordpress) website?
Not inherently, you could create a search engine, or easier would be to embed a Google custom search.
I haven't used this plugin, so cannot say if it works or is any good - but this might be a place to start. Google Custom Search Plugin
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I have a Wordpress site and my archives pages are showing in google search.
For instance, see the 2nd listing in this search:
How can I prevent this from happening?
You need to remove it first from Google index (using search console) then disallow search engine access using a common plugin named SEO Toast.
If you are using "Yoast Seo" plugin then you can set noindex from plugins settings. Also you can remove it from Google Webmaster Tool's search console.
We currently have a web site/app and then also use wordpress for our blog.
Wordpress is great and its cms is great.
I have used wordpress in the past to create an RSS feed that we use on the web site.
My question is:
Is is possible to use wordpress as a CMS and create a feed from that content that is not publish on the blog/wordpress install?
I want to use wordpress's cms, so that i do not have to create my own cms.
However, the content we put in this RSS feed cannot show up on the blog/wordpress site.
Is this possible? I know we are using a plugin to create these RSS feeds. I am not an expert in wordpress, but i believe this is possible.
I also want to use wordpress's category/tags/taxonomy to create feeds based on these values
Once again i want to leverage wordpress's cms to create a hidden feed and publish using RSS. I then want to connect to this feed using different clients.
All data entered into the cms with a certain tag will be hidden/not shown on the blog, but will be available via this RSS feed
Thanks
I want to design a Wordpress site that contains all of the usual Wordpress components (blog, contact us, image gallery, etc). I want to have a separate section of the site for "Books" and "Articles".
Admins will be able to enter a book/article with its detailed information (title, author, reference, etc.). I need to have a way for users (non admin) to be able to do an advanced search on these books entered by the Admin.
Should I use Wordpress for the entire site, and write a custom plugin for the book search piece? OR Have a custom PHP page for the searching? OR Is there a plugin that already exists where I could leverage Wordpress to do this advanced search for me? Any information to point me in the right direction would help.
Take a look at this Wordpress Plugin. It should provide you with what you need within the bounds of Wordpress. This should save time from having to write custom PHP code for this functionality.
There are probably other plugins available too that could work for you. One of the benefits of open source is there is a lot of user created content. This should help get you started.
We want to create a wiki page/system on our WordPress site that resembles the Wikipedia/MediaWiki look.
Is it possible to do an install of MediaWiki or similar Wiki interface and have it appear within a set WordPress theme/frame?
Possibly pull it with an iFrame?
Without addressing the iframe right away, it is possible to integrate WordPress and MediaWiki and install a wiki plugin.
Yes, there are several ways. The best I have found are using Wikiful (a WordPress plugin) and WPMW (a MediaWiki extension).
Wikiful allows WordPress to display wiki pages and WPMW allows a wiki to use WordPress for user authentication.
If someone can add a way to edit wiki pages inside of WordPress's GUI to this answer, that would be amazing.
I have managed to setup a blog on localhost quickly using wordpress. But what is ivolved in setting up a commercial website that is not a blog?
Also, should learning to use wordpress be more diffcult than learning Asp.Net or php? I can use these languages to create a website more quickly than using wordpress it seems. I'm guessing it should be possible to create a basic php website and then somehow hook it up to the admin functionality of wordpress to publish content and update it?
Any comments and suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks,
A few thoughts on this.
First, Wordpress is based on PHP. So if you know your way around in PHP you are able to change anything within wordpress, you can build customized plugins, templates, etc.
However, using Wordpress has nothing to do with the programming languages you know. The fact that you are struggling with it is probably more because you don't understand yet what the features of Wordpress are or what you can use them for.
You can easily use Wordpress to create a simple non-blog website by setting up pages instead of posts. So you would be using Wordpress not as a blog engine but more as what's usually called a content management system CMS (not that using it as a blog engine wouldn't make Wordpress a CMS, but I'm talking about the general usage of those wordings).
A simple Google search might help you find more information about how to accomplish it in your specific case.
Hope this helps!
You need experience with PHP, HTML and CSS to configure WordPress to run like a non-blog website. Is it easier? Maybe, you get what you want but you won't understand what is going on.
If you are creating a static web page, say like a company's web site with little to none dynamic content, use pages (not posts) and create a static front page.
If you wish to use WordPress like a generic CMS, you can either use the Pods plugin or the newly introduced custom post types and taxonomies (new in Wordpress 3.0). You still need knowledge of PHP/MySQL to configure the Wordpress Loop (which is used to display blog posts and other dynamic content) and Wordpress Theme tags (to display name of the current logged in user).
Some plugins help with customizing the site for a non-blog look. Theme My Login and Theme my Profile blends the log-in page and profile page with your theme. However, if you need to customize the appearance, or add new logic, you pretty much need programming.
In short, you would need knowledge of PHP and MySQL; CSS too, if possible. Get your hand dirty building some sites, then what Wordpress offer and does for you with its API will be more relevant.