Request: Search Everything or equivalent plugin

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  coyotegulch · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 3:06 pm

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  It would be great if the search function on WordPress returned more than post titles that meet the search criteria. I would, for example, like to search for a name, i.e. “John Orr,” and have it return all instances of the string in reverse chronological order. I believe that this is the functionality in the Search Everything plugin on WordPress.org.

  Thanks.

  John Orr

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  ifmomsaysok · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 3:10 pm

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  WordPress.COM sites have the OmniSearch feature (Dashboard > Home) that does a similar search.

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  ifmomsaysok · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 3:11 pm

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  Sorry… it only does an extensive search in your own posts and pages.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 5:35 pm

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  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. http://en.support.wordpress.com/wordpresscom-search/

  For Topics (Tags page) searches see http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/ This is the syntax http://en/wordpress.com/tags/canada
  See here http://wordpress.com/#!/read/topics/

  For Google searches use this format and replace “keyword” with whatever word or keyword phrase you wish:
  keyword site:wordpress.com/

  Example search string
  Queen Victoria site:wordpress.com
  results > http://tinyurl.com/csaobsx

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  timethief · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 5:38 pm

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  Note what a Google search produces please.
  Search string John Orr wordpress.com
  Results