bbPress Topic/Reply search

[JJJ]

bbPress deviates from WordPress's search functionality just a bit, so it's worth making a dedicated issue for it here.

Thankfully, bbPress topics and replies are just post types, so it's easy enough to grok. Providing fast and reliable relevancy-based results in a forum dramatically improves user experience, and the effectiveness of searching what can oftentimes be hundreds of thousands of posts.

Moderators could even have a control panel allowing them to weight certain terms in certain forums or categories, knowing that words and phrases are likely to be reused often in certain sections of the forums more than others.

[sc0ttkclark]

+1

[jeffpaul]

This feature was recently requested on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/DaleReardon/status/1398143309348884481

Suggestion for future work - Help extend the ElasticPress plugin by @10up to work with BBPress - Using ElasticSearch with BBPress would be great

[nickchomey]

Just linking this with the BuddyPress issue (#3 ) that I've been working on

[marksayegh]

Please, I don't understand, does the elastic search now with BBpress ?

[nickchomey]

@marksayegh no it doesn't. Not well at least. You could make it work with some custom code though - it would be easier than buddypress because bbpress posts are custom post types.