Al-Muhajabah's Movable Type Tips

Using a hack by Stepan Riha, you can give your visitors the option of choosing which fields in an entry they wish to search. The default is to search all of them (title, entry body, extended entry, and keywords) but the hack allows visitors to select only some of the fields for their search.

There's also the PartialWords hack. With this, your visitors can search for "mov" and get back results for all of "movable", "moved", and "moving", among other things.

Once you've applied the hacks, you'll have to add the appropriate code to your templates. The instructions for each hack give suggested code, or you can look at my search template (scroll to bottom of page).