Implement SearchPlugin for taxonomy

This still applies to HEAD, although there is some offset:

$ patch -p0 < taxonomy.module_44.patch
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module
Hunk #1 succeeded at 1311 (offset 157 lines).

Rerolled against HEAD with some minor changes.

I guess, "taxonomy terms" would be correct. This is a moving target though.

This works as a quick fix to allow the savvy user to search through categories that are on a website but at least to me, I'd imagine people wanting to be able to have their taxonomy term pages show up alongside normal search results.

Thus, instead of saying: Do you wish to search for a category that we may have on our website? We present them with category matches when they search using the generic search form. If we really care about the user experience, this is something that we must address and implement (as well as support to link to views and panel pages).

Just my 2cents.

-Blake

Yeah. It makes sense for user searches to be separate, but taxonomy terms are (often) used as high level pages.

Say you have a taxonomy term for 'news', aliased as 'news' - it currently won't appear anywhere in a search for that word.

It'd be useful to have a straight search for terms on admin/content/taxonomy though.

Rerolled and renamed tags to taxonomy since we recently got rid of Categories as a taxonomy synonym.

I'm not keen on the patch as it is, though. It doesn't go far enough to be really useful. I'd want the vocabulary names and the term synonyms to be in there, too, but you won't get that quite as easily just relying on the taxonomy module's API. Plus, if we put this in the taxonomy module as is, it forces people to have a taxonomy search tab. I'd rather have it in its own module so I can turn it off if not needed. The alternative to this is modifying the search module in a way that lets one opt out of search implementations.

New title.

#279070: taxonomy_search
#71800: Taxonomy module needs a search tab
Both duplicates.

#601674: Index taxonomy terms in core search too.

I'd like to leave this in D7 until #497804: [meta] Search entities (nodes, terms, etc.) within the administrative interface gets moved to D8.

+

This is a feature request. D7 is feature frozen, so moving this to Drupal 8.

The proposal here is to add a new search tab/type for taxonomy search.

Taxonomy terms are (hopefully, they were in d6 anyway) already indexed with nodes, by the way.

If you have a botany site ... (I do), you can have thousands and thousands of taxonomy terms which aren't found in any node.
Taxonomy search is definitely a must-have, and better sooner than later.

Indeed, if we had a D7 taxonomy search contrib module, I would love to spearhead getting it into D8 core. And I agree with bangpound that the hooks are there to do a taxonomy search module.

The only tax search module I've found is still in d5 ... with a patch that puts it at d6. I've downloaded that but haven't yet given it a shot.

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_search
http://drupal.org/node/261903

Sorry, can't currently attend drupalcons.

http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_manager

Related feature request for the Seach by page module (D6): #988736: Search Taxonomy terms

For D7 there is http://drupal.org/project/custom_search which goes way further than simple taxonomy search but maybe a solution for folks who need a solution now.

Hi, I've been working on a module that has basic taxonomy term searching functionality for D7. It may be of help to people looking for an immediate solution:
http://drupal.org/project/term_search

...I'd imagine people wanting to be able to have their taxonomy term pages show up alongside normal search results.

I agree with BlakeLucchesi that it would be nice to have term searches show up alongside nodes and other entities. This feature is not currently included in my module.

Seems what is needed is entity search. With one result set searching all entities (or, at least all entities enabled for that search index). Then users could drill down within those results to only search particular entities.

Taxonomy term pages are often built out as key landing pages on a site, and it is really quite bizarre if they do not appear in search results - or require users to run a separate search.

Marking #1964458: Implement hook_search_execute() for terms duplicate of this. This is a plain feature request so moving it to 8.1.x

Thank you for sharing your idea for improving Drupal.

We are working to decide if this proposal meets the Criteria for evaluating proposed changes. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or there is no community support. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

Thanks!