Website search

I know it's an older post but wanted to toss in a quick comment. Google site search is only as relevant as the number of times/frequency googlebot spiders your site and ranks the data it pulls. On newer sites or sites with little traffic or infrequent data changes - it just doesn't cut it the way you would expect it to. IF the googlebot recrawled the site at least daily or several times per day, then it would be MUCH more effective and efficient. This is why so many of us want to have a search function through CMSB on the sites we build - because all of our searchable/desirable data is stored right in the MySQL database and it's fast to get. The problem is having to build a search function for each site or as the site changes (read 'new sections added'), etc. If there are sections that relate to other sections this can be very difficult - especially for neophytic programmers such as myself. It's a constant retooling process and the code strings can get very long on manually coding the search parameters.

Our customers need a CMSB-based fully-searchable function plugin. Our customers site visitors need true site search capability powered by the site's own database and CMSB functions. As programmers we need to be able to do this readily and easily with CMSB >> therefore some type of comprehensive plugin is long overdue and we are constantly begging for it. Of course, it can be a daunting task to build such a plugin but building it so that the CMSB site programmer can pick/choose the setup parameters based on the sections and datatypes built into the CMSB site core could make it a terrific plugin.

Thanks for listening. Still LOVE this product, the service and the great attitude from the IT team! Just begging for a couple more core plugins that will ice the cake and make CMSB a more universally able tool.