Forum Searching – how to

[WPrap]

Have scoured the Forum docs – can’t find anything about searching.

Have been using WP for several weeks so am still a ‘newbie’ at WP – have been a pgmr for >30 years but WP seems to be in a class of its own.

Yes, I see that can search by themes but that doesn’t help much – that narrows it down to several hundred thousand threads.

And when I do find a promising search argument, can only look at 10 pages of threads … and then if choose to read a thread on page 8, when want to continue I’m taken back to page 1. After 10 pages the world of WP seems to end. Very frustrating.

I shudder when there is a problem and have to resort to the forum.

Any help is appreciated.

[James Huff]

Are you talking about these forums here?

If so, the search box up at the top right searches both the forums and documentation.

To get a more specific search, use the site: modifier at any major search engine. For example:

site:www.ads-software.com/support/ something to search for

[WPrap]

Thanks for responding James.

Yes, the WP forums
Yes, I’ve used the search box at the upper right
yes, I’ve used site:www.ads-software.com/support/”search arg”

I guess it is what it is … many search results and a matter of luck finding the right one.

Edit: as a further test,I tried searching for wprap posts (my posts)
site:www.ads-software.com/support/wprap … result – no hits
site:www.ads-software.com/support/forum/wprap … result – no hits
site:www.ads-software.com/support/forums/wprap … result – no hits
but when I search in WP.org, get 28 hits … 3 pages worth – but when try to access 2nd page, the search goes to page 1 of the results for search arg “wrap”. Guess I picked the wrong username when I signed up (my initials are RAP so just innocently added WP)
{ps tried search arg “wprap -wrap” … w/o “s – no joy)

[James Huff]

Well, of course those returned no hits. https://www.ads-software.com/support/wprap and such aren’t real URLs.

Try this instead:

site:www.ads-software.com/support/profile/wprap [search terms]

or:

site:www.ads-software.com/support/ wprap [other search terms]

[James Huff]

To clarify, the site: modifier works as such:

site:[URL you want to search in] [search terms]

[WPrap]

Yes James – all searches were done using site:www.ads-software.com/support/…

site:www.ads-software.com/support/ wprap works – Thank you
but
site:www.ads-software.com/support/wprap doesn’t – oh, I see – w/o the blank it becomes part of the URL and thus invalid

Sorry

Is the a list of the names used for WP forums (e.g. for the Animate It! ‘sub-forum’ is the name /animate-it or animate it or animate it! ??)

using the site: gets around the issues with the WP Forum inconsistencies. THANK YOU

[WPrap]

Done

[James Huff]

Plugin thread URLs aren’t unique, so you’d just have to treat its name like a keyword.

[WPrap]

OK that’s what I’ve been doing – I’ll continue – thanks

[James Huff]

You’re welcome!