In my previous post on implementing a custom field search in Wordpress, I showed how to modify the internal SQL LIKE search that is the default search engine of Wordpress. There are other search engines that Wordpress can make use of, most notably Sphinx Search.

I think it is safe to say that my personal goal of learning and using Python this winter has been a huge success! I have now found myself hard at work on a large Python-based project in my spare time and investigating issues that I haven't been able to track down much documentation on. How to use Memcached in conjunction with SQLAlchemy was one of those issues.

I have been using the mod_python handler to parse Mako templates for about a month now in a personal project. As I have done more and more development on my project, I have naturally encountered shortcomings and errors in my handler.

One of my personal goals this Winter has been to learn and start using Python. Learning new languages and putting them to use is something I try to do about every year. Like so many others out there, messing around with Perl in college really has had an impact on my professional career. Being a professional web developer who uses Perl—especially through Apache/mod_perl—it was only natural that I began looking at building out a small site using mod_python. Little did I understand how much of a minefield I was stepping into!

Some friends of mine that have started offering custom Wordpress designed sites and consulting hit me up a couple of weeks ago for some help. They had a site for a client that was utilizing custom fields to provide some additional CMS-like functionality to Wordpress and had hit a snag. Their custom fields were not being searched.