Search queries should return results based on author name

[computerwiz908]

When searching a WordPress blog using the name of an author, the author's posts do not come up; the search function only looks for the name in the full text of the posts. There should be a way for the search function to also look at the author of each article when performing queries.

[ocean90]

Can you test it with 3.1 RC1 please, it works for me here.

[hakre]

While testing, please check if searching for tags works as well. I had problems to locate posts by their tags (backend ajax search in the post listing). That's probably related.

[computerwiz908]

Neither tags nor author display names work when searching for articles in my test site with RC1. I made sure that the author name/tag was not in the full text of the article.

[dd32]

Searching currently only searches the contents of posts, not the metadata about the posts. Setting as enhancement, This may be a duplicate of an older search-related ticket.

Note, There are plugins around which greatly enhance WordPress's searching functionality.

[computerwiz908]

I am reopening because there aren't any third-party plugins that provide searching articles with the author name in the query, and it should be a core feature of WordPress. Also, I cannot find any previous bugs that are duplicates of this issue.

[nacin]

Check out the Search Everything and Search plugins. We don't think this should be a core feature of WordPress for now (it's not scalable, for one) -- hence maybelater. On the other hand, if we end up reconsidering search in the future, we don't need tickets to remind us what we would want to implement.