Include table in search

  • Resolved Alfo

    (@alfonsberger)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    is there a way to include the content of a table in the overall WordPress website search result?

    Thanks for your help

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  • Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Since the content is on Google’s servers, not yours, no.

    Thread Starter Alfo

    (@alfonsberger)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Ok, thanks.

    I guess this also means the content does not get indexed by search engines? If you use class=”no-datatables” it seems it is just a regular table on your website.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Alfo.
    Plugin Author Meitar

    (@meitar)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    I guess this also means the content does not get indexed by search engines?

    Well, Google is a search engine, so no. It does get indexed by them. It also gets indexed by them when they load your website just like any other visitor.

    If you use class=”no-datatables” it seems it is just a regular table on your website.

    Yes, that’s the point of the plugin. What I’m saying is that WordPress’s built-in search tool cannot index it because it’s not really WordPress’s content (it’s Google’s), but since it’s Google’s, and it behaves like a regular HTML table by design, any search engine crawling your site will index the table’s content.

    Thread Starter Alfo

    (@alfonsberger)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Thanks for the clarification. Awesome plugin by the way!

    cloudduster

    (@cloudduster)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    I solved this problem by replacing WordPress default search with Google Custom Search Engine

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