bbPress Topic/Reply search

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
18/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
elasticsearch, php, wordpress
Domain
search

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry point. Start by mapping ElasticPress’s WordPress search integration and how bbPress topics and replies are represented, then define acceptance criteria for relevance and performance. Done should include verified search behavior for both topics and replies.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

3rd party enhancement low priority

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.

Dominant language
PHP
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
24

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