Dec 10, 2009

Posted by Michael McDonald in Forum | 4 Comments

WordPress Search: Can it search PDFs, too?

Do you know of a plugin that can include PDFs (either as external files or integrated into WordPress) in the WordPress search?

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4 Comments

  1. Bradley Charbonneau says:
    December 10, 2009 at 1:46 pm

    At first thought: no.

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  2. John Muldoon says:
    December 11, 2009 at 9:45 am

    What about using Google Site Search? http://www.google.com/support/customsearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72369

    This brings me to a question actually: Can you make your search box on your site look as integrated as WordPress Search, but have the engine be Google Site Search?

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  3. Bradley Charbonneau says:
    December 13, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    What about on Foster Travel.

    The link above is when I typed in “site:fostertravel.com Santa Barbara” (no quotes) into his Google Search in the sidebar widget. But I suppose we could have a widget that would only search that site (so the “site:thissitehere.com”) and use Google. Right?

    Aha, but I haven’t answered the PDF question. I guess that’s just answered if Google can search PDFs. I guess the PDFs have to be searchable, too, not just images.

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