WordPress blog search is not working

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  johnsilva262 · Member · Aug 3, 2013 at 2:40 pm

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  blog at http://digitallyzen.wordpress.com is having issues with search. using a stock free theme. When I try to search for anything that is evidently on the site, nothing comes up, other than a not found message. For instance if i try to find ‘cancun’ in the search field (top righthand corner beside my name) comes up as: 0 results for cancun from digitallyzen.wordpress.com. there are posts with cancun in either title or content of post. what am I doing wrong?

  Thanks for your kind assistance.

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

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  timethief · Member · Aug 3, 2013 at 5:02 pm

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  Your blog took such a long time to load that I quit waiting for that to happen.

  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/

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  johnsilva262 · Member · Aug 3, 2013 at 10:52 pm

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  Thanks for the reply. Can’t do much about the load times since it’s hosted with WordPress, and I am using a free theme. I don’t have issues with load times and I am on a slow connection from a third world country ;)

  But your explanation might actually mean something, since all search terms used reflected only post titles. I checked on body text and I can confirm that the search does work. Thanks for your expert assistance. Will try to close this support instance.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 3, 2013 at 11:01 pm

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  Hi there,
  I’m glad I was able to help re: wordpress.com search.

  Note that I am in Canada on a dedicated DSL line that has only this computer on it.

  Your website is faster than 53% of all tested websites.
  http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/#!/babcT3/http://silvajohn.wordpress.com/

  That would not make me happy at all. I would immediately read that report and act to reduce the page loading time.

  These are the ways to reduce page loading time:
  1. Edit posts and insert “the more tag” so only excerpts appear on the fort page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

  2. Reduce the number of posts appearing on the front page here > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts

  3. Reduce the number of images and or media embeds displayed and/or make them smaller.

  4. Reduce the number of widgets in the sidebar and footer areas.

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  johnsilva262 · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 12:30 am

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  Tested it just now and here’s the result:
  digitallyzen.wordpress.com

  Tested from Dallas, Texas, USA on August 4 at 05:58:15Page size1.2MBLoad time1.30sRequests34Perf. grade85/100Your website is faster than 84% of all tested websites

  I guess it depends from where the test originates from. Dell.com came in at 53% :)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 4, 2013 at 12:40 am

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  Interesting … very interesting and of course you’re right re: locations. :)