How to search for blogs
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The search functionality (if there is one) is not easily apparent. All I get is my site – and if I log out, about how to create a site or blog. I’m not stupid, but this is not intuitive. Please advise.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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See: Reader – Finding and Following Blogs
https://en.support.wordpress.com/reader/#finding-and-following-blogsHere are examples of a URLs for doing a tag search:
https://wordpress.com/tags/cats/
https://wordpress.com/tags/humor/
https://wordpress.com/tags/better-blogging/All you have to do is to change keywords for the subject at the end of the URL.
There are other ways and means of finding sites with similar content and you will find them in this post: Finding Blogs with Similar Content https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/
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NOTE: The WordPress.com search engine indexes post, pages, and comments content (body text). Unless entered as text in those contents, blog name, post titles, and post/comment author names are not indexed.
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Thank you for the quick response! So, if I understand you correctly, there is NO search field on any wordpress page; so in order to search for a blog, you essentially have to enter a URL (as you gave as examples) in order to search. Meaning you have to either: A) leave your current page to search, or B) Open a new browser window (or tab) to preform your search.
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May I ask if you are looking for a means of searching a specific blog? If so the search widget may be useful if it has been installed https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/search-widget/
As for me, I use Google search and DuckDuckGo and they return results very quickly.
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Google search string:
Password Apple ID, iCloud or iTunes Store site:wordpress.comDuckDuckGo search string:
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It’s not just for me. If somebody is on wordpress and they want to sniff around for blogs, there’s no easy way to do this. I would think there would be search field that would assist in searching all wordpress blogs. Understand I make my living working with Macintosh computers, and maybe I’m spoiled because Apple makes intuitive products. I’m trying to look at other blogs to get ideas for themes, layouts, etc. but nothing seems to be easy to find.
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I rarely use https://en.search.wordpress.com/
For themes see here https://wordpress.com/themes/ and also use https://theme.wordpress.com as if you click the find a theme button there you will find there are search filters.
Otherwise, I would use Google search and get a return in seconds flat. Or I would use DuckDuckGo where my searches are private and still get results in seconds time.
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