• Use specific keywords: The more specific your keywords, the better your results.
• Use boolean operators: Use "+", "-", and quotation marks to refine your search.
• Optimize content titles and meta keywords: These fields are given priority during search, so make sure they accurately reflect your content.
• Consider enabling the fast custom index: Especially beneficial for large websites or frequent filtered searches.

• Faster filtered searches: Significantly improves search speed when you add filters like category or author.
• Configurable stop words: Control which common words are ignored during search.
• Better stemming: More accurately recognizes variations of words (e.g., "like" and "liking").
• Multilingual support: Indexes content based on different language translations.

• Slight lag in indexing new content: New content takes a short time to be indexed.
• Less accurate ranking: Ranking is based on the most obscure keyword, not a blend of all keywords.
• Cannot perform blank searches: You must enter at least one keyword.

• Content type: Choose to search specific content types like news, forum posts, or Comcode pages.
• Author/Submitter: Search for content submitted by a specific member.
• Date: Limit your search to content submitted within a specific time frame.
• Category (for certain content types): Narrow down your search to specific categories within a content type.

• Using the search bar in the header: This is the simplest way to search. Just type your search term in the box and click the search button.
• Using the 'Search' module: This module offers more detailed search options. You can access it via the 'site:search' page-link (usually under About > Search in the default menu).
• From the Forum: Click the 'Search' button on the forum or use the contextual search box on the forum member bar. This will search within your current forum or topic.

Versatile: You can strip down to a core system, or build up with 3rd-party addons.

Full API documentation

High coding standards: No PHP notices. Type-strict codebase. MVC framework.

Free online developer's guide book (in the tutorials)

Custom field filters: For example, restrict news posts to a minimum length.

Stack traces for easy debugging

Synchronise data between staging and live sites using Resource-fs

Breadcrumb overrides

Advanced banning: Set your own banning rules for different hack attack codes. Even create your own ban pages (e.g. to mimic law enforcement bans for spammers).

Code overrides: Implement modifications to the Composr code without directly editing the original code by creating _custom files. This makes upgrading much easier. Also supports contentious_overrides hooks and the override_api for more advanced overriding.

Many different hook types allowing for modifying or extending Composr without modifying or overriding the code.

Convert from other software: See our importing tutorial for a list of importers.

Use an existing member system: See our download page for a list of forum drivers.

Convert an HTML site into Composr pages

LDAP support for corporate networks (Conversr only)

HTTP authentication: Tie into an existing HTTP authentication-based login system (Conversr only)

Proxying system: Programmers can integrate any existing scripts using our sophisticated proxying system (which includes full cookie support).

Minimodules and miniblocks: Programmers can port existing PHP code into Composr itself without having to strictly conform it to Composr's framework