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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)July 13th, 2010

Extending WordPress search with Sphinx (Part II)

Once theSphinx server is setup, we can begin with WordPress integration. The first thing we need to do capture the override the query_vars in WP_Query before it runs it’s own search. We’ll do this by running an action on ‘parse_query’ with the code below.
function my_parse_query(&$wp_query) {
  if($wp_query->is_search && class_exists(’SphinxClient’)) {
    $results = [...]

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Sean O'ShaughnessyJuly 12th, 2010

Extending WordPress search with Sphinx (Part I)

Sphinx is a powerful open source SQL full-text search engine. It runs as a single process in the background, and can be connected to over a specified IP and port.
It supports weighted ranking of search results, different search matching modes (all words in the query, any words in the query, exact phrase), and filtering on [...]

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Chris ThilkMay 25th, 2010

Content Planning: Developing Internal Policies

In all likelihood any organization of any size is going to have existing guidelines concerning not only employee behavior but also how the organization and those within it are going to respond to certain situations. Whether it’s an employee issue, something regarding a customer accident or even a weather emergency, there [...]

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Chris ThilkMay 18th, 2010

Content Planning: Choosing the Platform

Once the goals of a content publishing program have been established and buy-in received from all key stakeholders, the time comes to decide what platform or platforms the program winds up living on. In my first post I steadfastly avoided pigeonholing what was being discussed by avoiding identifying it as being [...]

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Chris ThilkMay 4th, 2010

Content Planning: Form Follows Function

One of the things we pride ourselves on at Voce is our ability to work with clients to find and flesh out the stories they have to tell. Everything else is based on that, from the platforms those stories live on to the distribution strategy is based on those initial story ideas. [...]

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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)February 29th, 2008

SQL Server Side Paging

I was extremely excited about GridViews and DataGrids when I first started working with .NET. The thought of having controls with built in paging and sorting just blew me away. Needless to say, this excitement was short lived. By the end of my first project in .NET, I found that this built [...]

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Michael Pretty (prettyboymp)August 16th, 2007

Data Access and Business Logic

Since I’ve started web development, I’ve come across many ways to handle data access and business logic. Some of these have been good, many were bad, and some had potential but not for that particular project. I’ve decided I would bring up some of the better designs I’ve come across and discuss [...]

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