I’m in the process of building a WordPress website for a client. It is not a blog though, it is a content manageable website. WordPress is really flexible and I have been suprised at how easy it is to use it as a CMS. And the great thing is that if there is anything WordPress cannot do, then there is almost certainly a plugin out there that solves the problem.
Today, while working on said website, I came across two obsticles. Firstly I wanted to display a post from a certain category on a page with a custom WordPress template file (and the standard WordPress loop did not work for this task). Secondly, the WordPress searchform only searches posts, and I needed it to search pages too.
The solution to my first problem was the Get-A-Post plugin. Once the plugin is installed, you use a single function call to display the post you want, on the page you want. It only accepts one parameter, ID, and you can use either the numerical or text name of the category from which the article must be retrieved.
My second problem was solved with the Search Everything plugin. Once the plugin is installed, there is a tab for it under options in the WordPress admin panel. You can set the plugin to search basically everything on your blog (including categories, pages, protected pages, etc), not just the posts.
So there you go. Two very helpful plugins discovered in one day. I will keep documenting myWordPress findings here, so be sure to check back for more…
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