search box frustration

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  buyathread · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 2:46 pm

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  Just before the holiday a reader asked how to find the sale yarn posts on my blog (there are seven scattered throughout). I thought that all she had to do was enter yarn (one of my categories)into the search box and voila! But when I tried that I got pages of miscellaneous posts. So I refined the tags a little and the category is now designer yarn but the search box turned up two weaves of the week and my about page. And when I typed the dates of the posts into the search box, I got a no posts found message.

  I will give her http://wordpress.com/tag/designer-yarn but is there a better yarn to search a site by categories? Thanks and Happy New Year.

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  teck07 · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 2:50 pm

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  The search is more precise when you use keywords
  from the article headline.

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  teck07 · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm

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  I noticed you have a gallery page of photos that are in your posts
  you could link the corresponding image with the matching article
  for easier navigation for your readers.

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  buyathread · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 4:00 pm

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  @teck07 – re the search box, I’m not sure how using keywords from an article headline would help a reader who is looking for an article, but maybe I’m not understanding your suggestion.

  Re your gallery page suggestion – you must be psychic. I was going to post asking for how that can be done without too much clutter. Was thinking of adding article dates unless there’s a better way.
  It would be great to actually link to the article but if that’s possible to do, I don’t know how.

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  buyathread · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 4:35 pm

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  Yesterday the link in my OP opened a Blogs About page that listed all my yarns but today the same link goes to another page that shows only one yarn entry. There must be some way a reader to search for specific categories within this system, or do I have to tell readers to google post titles?

  PS – teck07 your avatar/gravatar isn’t working.

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 5:15 pm

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  The search is imprecise, that’s for sure. The best bet is to use categories and the categories widget (if your theme is widget-enabled).

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  buyathread · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 6:21 pm

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  @ vivianpaige – MWAHH! BIG SMOOCH! The categories widget is EXACTLY the solution I need. Thank you so very much.

  Now, is there a widget that will link my gallery images to their relevant posts? : )