krileonCB Search Bot has officially been rewritten into CB User Search bringing an end to legacy search plugins and bringing a beginning to smart searching! Check out the details below!
This has been a long awaited request for us to support Joomla smart searching and it has finally arrived. CB Search Bot is no longer a Joomla legacy search plugin, but has been completely rewritten using latest Joomla APIs into a Joomla smart search plugin.
With this rewrite brings an end to its Joomla 3 support. This plugin supports Joomla 4 and 5 only so if you have not migrated from Joomla 3 as of yet it is strongly recommended you do so as we will continue to drop Joomla 3 support with future rewrites. Our goal is to try and maintain last 2 major releases of Joomla. So in this case 4 and 5. Once 6 releases this would become 5 and 6. Note there will be exceptions like CB SEO since the API needed to make it work does not exist in earlier releases.
With CB User Search you can customize the indexing process for your users by specifying exactly what fields should or should not be indexed. Please be mindful of this as it's not possible to apply individual privacy constraints to indexed data so I recommend only indexing fields you expect to be public.
In addition to customizing the indexing process you can completely customize exactly what the search results display as using substitutions. For Community Builder users this is enhanced further by allowing avatar output and support for our substitution API. For Joomla users there is no avatar output and only simple [FIELD_NAME] substitutions are supported.
Additionally you can exclude specific users by user id as well as by user status giving much better control over whom is indexed. Users will automatically be indexed during registration and re-indexed when their profile updates.
The only requirement is to be sure you publish the following 2 plugins after install and you're good to go. Simply run the indexer or let it happen naturally as people register or update their profiles.
We've also completely updated the addon page from CB Search Bot to CB User Search.