Thread: How can we make tags searchable?

How can we make tags searchable?

What file can we edit, or what can we do to allow tags to be searchable?

This is a basic and important feature for me. Especially because it will make it much simpler for me to upgrade from 2.9 to 3.0 line, as I tweaked my 2.9 site so that ads are being tagged by location. I don't want to go through hundreds of old ads one by one to apply the new custom field location data.

Rather I would like to use a custom menu that will contain links that will be to search result pages with the keywords being the locations, thus showing both new ads that have the location custom field value applied and old ads that have the location tag applied.

And making tags be searchable seems to be a basic necessity that others here have previously requested many months ago.

I've loaded up 3.04 on a site today and the tags don't appear to be searchable.

Here is a quote from another post.. a response to someone considering removing the tag feature from his site:

http://appthemes.com/forum/showthrea...ll=1#post35094

I think that poster was mistaken because tags do not yet appear to be made searchable in Classipress. But I posted it because it highlights that this is an important thing.

Here is a thread from May 2009 where it is requested that tags be searchable:

http://appthemes.com/forum/showthrea...ags-searchable.

David responded with suggesting to use the search everything plugin. Myself and others have found the search everything plugin not to work for searching tags, but maybe we just didn't configure it right, it's been a while since I tried that out.

Other people in that thread report that the Search Everything plugin did not work for them, and did not make tags searchable for them.

Here is another quote from that thread:

And another quote from that thread:

And the thread ends simply with somebody posting this:

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Also, over a year ago I asked about making category names searchable, which isn't really critical for me... but anyway, David responded with mentioning that tags are searchable:

http://appthemes.com/forum/showthrea...mes-searchable

Unfortunately it appears that David misspoke because tags don't appear to be searchable in any of the versions of Classipress that I've tried.

Can David or Seth, or anybody offer some way to make tags searchable. Classipress is simply the best classifieds software available that I know of, and I've researched a good number of them. Making tags searchable seems like a simple thing to me, tho I'm not a developer, so please feel free to educate me if it's a complex task.

My classifieds sites are extremely simple, and use very few plugins and I allow all free ad posting, and I don't really need a lot of fancy stuff to build successful sites, but searchable tags would really be awesome for me right now. Any tips are welcome and much appreciated. I'm happy to hack into some files if instructions and code tweaks can be provided.

Maybe I'll give Search Everything another spin and see if it works this time, but still I think the ability to search tags should be baked into Classipress. I guess this post sounds a bit huffy, so I'll add some more balance by saying Bravo David and Team on the new forum and AppThemes site, and I'm excited about JobRoller