Getting the C5 Search to read WordPress entries

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I have set up two searches on my site - one using your WordPress search block and one using the basic C5 search block. I might want to take this down to just one, but the C5 search doesn't read my WordPress entries. Even if I keep both searches, I'd still like the site-wide to include WordPress entries. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

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nealbabcock
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elyon
I have been asking myself if the add-on should work a bit differently.

When I first created it, I wanted it to be simple -- to work well, and not to create a lot of clutter by generated pages (duplicating content) in Concrete. Instead, WordPress would be used as the backend, so things would always be current and simple.

However, I'm wondering if there should be a service which polls WordPress, and syncs data with pages in Concrete? Originally I was not interested in having a lot of pages created, but now that I've been using the Discussion Forums in one of my sites (which creates a new page for every comment), I realize how pages are just an entry in the database, so there's nothing wrong with using them over blocks or any other element of Concrete.

The advantage would be that searching would work normally, and there may (eventually) be a way to edit in Concrete and have that sent back to WordPress. The disadvantage is added complexity, and wait times (or having to manually push a refresh button) when something new is available in WordPress. If you rename a permalink, for example, the change would not take effect until the service had polled WordPress again.

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