Hi martha,

Do have a look at the excellent [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=15593&highlight=plugin+search]Advanced Search plugin[/url]. At first glance it does what you want. If not please notify sam2kb or me and we'll do what we can.

Have fun

Cool--I had passed over this plugin earlier because I focused on the radio buttons and all and failed to notice (a) they could be turned off and (b) could search by blog.

Now I've installed it, and it does allow one to change the title (or omit it) and to specify which blogs to search--my two requests above.

It does, however, display this info at the top of my posts column:

// Display search results global $ASearch_plugin; if( is_object($ASearch_plugin) ) { $ASearch_plugin->display_results(); }

I just uploaded the plugin folder to plugins--as that seems sop here--and there were no further installation instructions. Am headed over to ftp to try putting contents of inc into inc and of locales into locales, see if that clears it up.

Check the README.html for instructions.
You don't need to copy locales or inc folders anywhere, just upload the plugin folder in plugins directory.

Well, before finding your reply, sam2kb, I deleted inc and locales from plugins location and added their files to inc and locales. No apparent change!

AND I still have the lines of code displayed on my page: http://www.healthygreenpaint.com/index.php/learn

Has something happened to the README.html? It includes ONLY the instructions for adding code to posts.main.php

It includes ONLY the instructions for adding code to posts.main.php

This is all you need to get the plugin working.

Don't delete or move any files from plugin. Just upload it to the site in plugins directory and put the code in either index.main.php or in posts.main.php

This is the PHP code so you must wrap it with <?php and ?>

<?php

// Display search results
global $ASearch_plugin;
if( is_object($ASearch_plugin) )
{
	$ASearch_plugin->display_results();
}

?>

Plugin files deleted from blogs/inc and blogs/locales, fresh new copy of entire plugin uploaded to blogs/plugins, code in posts.main.php wrapped in <?php and ?>.

Code disappears from posts column. Function seems fine.

But I lose post styling on a page that is returned from the search. Clicking a category or a tag returns a page that keeps styling; until the round of fixes described in this post, the advanced search returned a styled page also. It is only the post that returns or partially returns to a default style: at http://www.healthygreenpaint.com try clicking on, say, category "paint chemistry" and compare with searching for, say, "chemicals."

Where is it looking for styling?

The plugin uses its own results styling, you can change it in adv_search.css

Ah-hah! I have, for now, commented out the lines for page results and gotten back most of my styling. Clearly, there is still work to do, but I must run for now.

This is a very useful plug-in. Thank you for making it, and thank you for taking time with me today.

I hope to get back to you with some suggestions for the installation instructions (from me as an editor, not computer expert). Thanks again.

No problem :)