Search results return posts with external links

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Search results return posts with external links #78

Open knice opened 4 years ago

knice commented 4 years ago

Client expects search results that contain posts with external links will send the client out to the external URL when clicked from search results.

I think we should talk about an overall strategy for search. It needs customization. We might need to look at an external site search tool like Algolia.

Goals:

[x] Clicking a search result sends the user to an external link when the post type defines such behavior.
[x] Ability to exclude some post types entirely from search results.

knice commented 4 years ago

Already seeing this issue crop up in Google results: https://www.google.com/search?q=elmer+fridley+scholarship&oq=elmer+fridley+scholarship&aqs=chrome..69i57.4825j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Herm71 commented 4 years ago

Got it covered. We can discuss it, but I think I figured it out.

knice commented 4 years ago

We'll need to see if we can do anything about external search results pointing to individual posts.