Nice Search
This is a really simple plugin that redirects your WordPress searches (?s=search-term) to the pretty-looking URI version: /search/search-term, and also converts spaces (%20) to plus symbols.
Obviously, you need to have mod_rewrite enabled, so that WordPress can process the /search/ style URIs.
This plugin requires WordPress version 1.5 or higher.
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This is a great plugin!!!
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This plugin looks interesting. Let me try it out at my blog. Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated.
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Thanks a lot, your plugin is just like the name,
Really nice…..
when using
/?s=nice-search -> /search/nice-search
but what if using (search in some category)
/?s=nice-search&category_name=plugin
or
/?category_name=plugin&s=nice-search
can we make it
/search/nice-search/category_name/plugin
or
/category_name/plugin/search/nice-search
or
/search/category_name/nice-search
or even
/search/nice-search
thanks for your help
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Hi, I have your plugin working on my sites from years ago, but I’ve found recently that is doing a 302 redirect not a 301.
How can I fix it…?
THanks Mark.
http://www.pandeblog.org/?s=heidi should rediret with a 301 to http://www.pandeblog.org/search/heidi/ but response header is 302.
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Nice plug ins thanks Mark,
Can I make search/search-term/ -> mencari/search-term/
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Hi.
Great and simple plugin. Thank you.
I have a suggestion: you should urlencode the search. I could not get any search with accents or scandinavian letters (æ, ø, å, ö, ô, è, é, and so on) to function properly after adding this plugin, until I tried this:
wp_redirect(get_bloginfo(‘home’) . ‘/search/’ . str_replace(‘ ‘, ‘+’, str_replace(‘%20′, ‘+’, urlencode(get_query_var(’s’)))));
Now it works perfectly.
That’s it, it worked for me too, it would be great to update the file!
Thanks simon i’ve edited my plugin and its 100% working.
[...] Nice Search This is a really simple plugin that redirects your WordPress searches (?s=search-term) to the pretty-looking URI version: /search/search-term, and also converts spaces (%20) to plus symbols. [...]
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Just got this working fine with WP 2.7 and PHP 5! Thanks a bunch.
Awesome plugin!
Works in WP 2.7.1
Thanks
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@Simon
Thanks Simon, it’s better now.
sorry to be so dumb, but where exactly do you install/upload the file “nice-search.php”? is there anything else that needs to be done?
I love this plugin! I use it on every site I create. Thanks a ton!
hmmm really nice search !
Came clueless, left worried. tnx for the post.
The main problem with this plug in is the redirection is not 301 its 302