I never liked how build in Wordpress search works. it shows full documents rather than snippets it … functionality for our site which is based on Sphinx. We have developed it as WordPress plugin which will be available as open source… more useful for you. UPDATE: For those looking to download plugin code it is here: https://launchpad.net/wp-sphinx-plugin/+download

Sphinx is a wonderful full text engine and I recommend anyone wanting great flexibility and performance for full text searches to check it out! I am happy to hear about the Wordpress plugin. Great blog BTW!

[...] Sphinx, a open-source SQL full-text search engine has been Wordpress-Plugin-arized by the Folks of the MySQL Performance Blog. [...]

… downloaded the plugin and uploaded to my Wordpress 2.7 site. Unfortunately I got the error below when trying to activate Plugin could…_STRING in /home/dubaijob/public_html/dev/wp-content/plugins/wp-sphinx-plugin-1.0.tar.gz on line 45 Can anyone help…

Hi, This sounds great. I’ve wanted to fix my wordpress search for awhile now. Can I check out the beta version of the Sphinx plugin? I’d love to play around with it on my local instance.

[...] gente de MySQL Performance Blog está desarrollando un plugin de búsqueda para Wordpress basado en Sphinx, que planean distribuir [...]

Can the Sphinx plugin work on Wordpress-MU?