Searching for "how to" information in WordPress

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  mickeymurphy · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 1:42 am

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  This forum is great for helping people like myself who have a difficult time trying to figure out how to do anything in WordPress. However, I understand that the proper approach is to first look for answers to your questions on the extensive WP help/info logs. I try to do that before I post these queries, but invariably, I can never find the correct answers, and often even information that relates even tangentially to what I want to learn. Does anyone out there have any tips on how to search WP most effectively when you run into something you don’t know how to do? Thanks.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 1:52 am

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  Yes.

  Do not use the built-in search. I never do. Use Google. Go to google or Bing or whatever you like and put the following in the search box:

  thing you are looking for site:en.forums.wordpress.com

  Like this:

  millions of hits site:en.forums.wordpress.com

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  auxclass · Member · Jun 30, 2011 at 6:29 am

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  I learned a lot by just looking in the Forum – many of the questions repeat every few hours is seems. You can also see then some of the things that others are doing.

  I also just sort of paged through the support documents and looked at the titles and clicked on the ones that sounded interesting.