Search blog by tags

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  xavier039 · Member · Oct 10, 2007 at 11:50 pm

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  I am new to wordpress so I don’t know if this is common or something just not possible. When I use the search function on my blog and I type in a known tag for one of my posts nothing appears. It just says no post found. Is it possible to find specific posts by tags? Right now only my categories are working correctly. However if I click on a tag from the tag cloud it works correctly. Is is possible to add tags in the search engine and not only search by categories? That is the purpose of tags after all. Thank you.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2007 at 11:53 pm

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  Here’s an example url for the wordpresss.com tag/category pages – please click it. http://wordpress.com/tags/cars
  Now change the last word to any other “tag” or “category” and then search.

  You can also use Google blog search in that example you would use this format (note the lack of space following the colon) cars site:wordpress.com
  cars site:wordpress.com

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  xavier039 · Member · Oct 10, 2007 at 11:58 pm

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  No this is searching within my own blog. I am talking about searching for specific posts in my own blog. I am not looking to find other blogs. I want to know if it is possible to search for specific posts on my blog by typing in the name of tags in the search bar IN MY BLOG.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 10, 2007 at 11:59 pm

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  Is it possible to find specific posts by tags?

  If you have a wordpress.com blog then please read this http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/the-difference-between-tags-and-categories/
  The short answer to your question is “no”.

  Lastly note that there are other forum threads with regard to the unhappiness bloggers feel regarding how the tags do or don’t work.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=1617

  If you have downloaded wordpress.org software then the correct forum is http://wordpress.org/support

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2007 at 12:10 am

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  Here’s another reference you may find useful https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=16710

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  options · Member · Oct 11, 2007 at 12:17 am

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  > I want to know if it is possible to search for specific posts on my blog by typing in the name of tags in the search bar IN MY BLOG.

  NO.

  built-in WP search doesn’t look for Cats, Tags, Comments, and Pages.

  you can only have a link to the Google Custom Search box (or similar services) on your sidebar. and that’s all, sorry.

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  xavier039 · Member · Oct 11, 2007 at 12:24 am

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  I am using wordpress.org I don’t know if that matters. I reposted this on the correct site.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2007 at 12:57 am

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  Thanks for advising us that you were in the wrong forum.