Searching for Tags on Private Blog

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  andrewcarriere · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 9:45 pm

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  Hi there!

  I recently took over a blog, which is used as sort of an intranet/news website for my company. My predecessors didn’t utilize categories or tags, but I’d like to introduce the concept as a way to make searching for posts easier. I post an average of 20-40 articles a month, so things can often get lost.

  I’ve added categories for menu categorization, so posts are sorted, but I’d still like posts within menus to be searchable. I’ve tried a variety of things in the searchbar on my wordpress.com site, but nothing seems to work for pulling up tags, except that I can manually type “sitename.wordpress.com/tag/First-word/” to pull up appropriate tags. Not all my users are quite so internet-savvy, so that doesn’t really address my problem.

  TLDR; How do I search for tags on my private WP site?

  Thanks very much!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:01 pm

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  The tags are not a part of the search on WP.com, whether public or private.

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  andrewcarriere · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:22 pm

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  Ah – I see.

  Are there any alternatives that don’t involve using the tag cloud?

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  timethief · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 10:25 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/

  So if you do not want to use the Tag cloud widget then I think you may have reached a dead end.

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  raincoaster · Member · Feb 5, 2015 at 11:08 pm

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  You could create a manual tag widget in a text widget and make the links yourself, but it’s not searchable or dynamic. It’s just linear instead of cloud.

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  andrewcarriere · Member · Feb 6, 2015 at 3:03 pm

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  That’s unfortunate, but good to know.

  Thanks very much, both of you, I appreciate the help!