Search Integration

Hi, can you elaborate more in regards to your question? What is it that you are trying to achieve?

Thank you

So we have a couple of sites currently using WP-Filebase. We are looking for another file/download manager option as development on that plugin seems to have ceased.

These sites are also currently using Google Site Search, which has been killed off. We never really had to worry about anything from within WordPress indexing and search the documents that were being uploaded because Google basically handled it.

Now we are looking at switching back to WordPress based search. We like to use SearchWP because of its indexing, weighing of various content pieces, and support for indexing contents of files (word, pdf, xcel, etc). It was not compatible with Filebase because it created its own database tables and stored uploads outside of the default WP media folder.

Does SDM follow the same methods as Filebase? If we use basic WP search, will files managed by SDM be in those results? Can we use a plugin like SearchWP to index files managed by SDM?

We use custom post types for SDM. If the plugin you are using can search custom post types then it should work fine with our plugin.

If you are embedding the download buttons inside standard WordPress posts or pages then our plugin is irrelevant in that context (in my opinion) as the WP posts/pages will rank based on the content it has.