Searching for a blogger by name
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Hi.
Apologies if I’m being thick. WordPress has changed a lot since I was using it regularly and I’m not finding my way around too well. I want to search for a particular blogger, by name, but can’t for the life of me see how to do that. Could someone help, please?
Thanks.
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There is no directory of actual names. If you know the wordpress.com username see this example of your own for the format of the link:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/profile/icenimoon
Change the “icenimoon” to the correct username. -
Sorry yes, I meant by username. Thank-you very much; I’ll try a few likely combinations.
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Ooops – I meant that I want to search for the blog, rather than any forum posts they may have made.
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Do you have the URL starting with https://? Without you providing it we cannot help. If you don’t then I suggest you use Google search for the author name.
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.
https://en.search.wordpress.com/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/fashion/
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.
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I couldn’t find how to start a search *at all*, and can’t provide you with a URL because if I had that, I’d have found the blog?
Sorry – if I really am being thick, I understand frustration at what must seem daft questions.
I don’t even seem able to get to some kind of wordpress homepage where I might access a search engine? What I would expect to see as the wordpress homepage then redirects to the blog of someone I follow. All seems very odd.
But, following the logic in your first reply, I have in fact now found the blogger and blog I was looking for – but only by speculatively guesswork, when I’d have expected a much simpler way.
Thank-you for your help.
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I do not know what the URL of the blog in question is.
The url is required to be able to access the site. -
How can I give you the URL of the URL I’m looking for? That doesn’t make sense.
But let’s stop there, since I’ve now found the person I was searching for.
Thanks again.
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I’ve now found the person I was searching for.
Thanks again.That is good news. :) You are welcome.
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