Just the one you're currently viewing.

Thanks. Is there a way to get the search box to search all blogs that the user has access to, either as a logged in user or a non-logged in user - whichever the case may be?

There's not an easy way to do that, but it is possible. You'll have to edit a core file, which is not really recommended since you can break things and your changes will be lost next time you upgrade and so on. But if you really want to, you can open up _blog_main.inc.php and find this part:

	$MainList = & new ItemList(
		$blog, $show_statuses, $p, $m, $w, $cat, $catsel, $author, $order,
		$orderby, $posts, $paged, $poststart, $postend, $s, $sentence, $exact,
		$preview, $unit, $timestamp_min, $timestamp_max, $title, $dstart );

replace it with this:

	$ilblog = (empty($s)) ? $blog : 1;
	$MainList = & new ItemList(
		$ilblog, $show_statuses, $p, $m, $w, $cat, $catsel, $author, $order,
		$orderby, $posts, $paged, $poststart, $postend, $s, $sentence, $exact,
		$preview, $unit, $timestamp_min, $timestamp_max, $title, $dstart );

I tried it out and it seems to work fine. Your title and sidebars will still think you're on the normal blog, but the search results will include posts from all blogs.

Thanks!

I'm hesitant to hack a core file, for the reasons you mentioned. Is there any possibility of getting a mainline b2evolution change to add a BackOffice option for each blog that indicates whether the search bar for the given blog is to search the blog or all accessible blogs? I would like to set up my site so that my home page is blog 1, and other blogs correspond to different areas or articles within the site. In this kind of setup one definitely wants at least some searches to search the entire site (all blogs). I've seen other people in these forums ask how to set up their site similarly - probably making searches configurable in this way would be of general interest. What do you think?

You can post your feature request here: [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net//viewforum.php?f=8]Feature Requests[/url]

Also, just so you know. If you search from blog 1 (the Blog All) the results will include all blogs. My hack is just a way to trick the software into thinking you're on blog 1 even when you're not.

Oh yeah. I asked about it there. Thanks.

I forgot to answer your concern about private posts. Users will still only see posts that they have permission to view.