Solution for searching Plugin specific support thread

[Aurovrata Venet]

Good morning,

This is a recurring issue for many on this forum, the inability to limit searches on support threads to specific plugins.

I found a way to solve this using google. For example I have been searching the following plugin

ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module

I use Google’s advanced search functionality link: operator in combination with the site operator. Every single support thread has the original plugin support page linked in the initial thread. Hence for the above example, I can get google to filter out only the support pages for that plugin with the following search,

link:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module site:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/

I can add keywords to the search such as

slider form link:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module site:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/

Happy searching!

[tranthuphuong]

Thanks for your sharing. Great

[Aurovrata Venet]

you’re welcome 🙂

[George Notaras]

That’s a great workaround for plugin forums!

BTW, tried to limit the search by general forum, but it doesn’t seem to work in that case (or I didn’t try hard enough).

[Aurovrata Venet]

I tried a couple of searches for similar topics as this thread, using the following query

searching "plugin support" threads link:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/forum/miscellaneous site:ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic

it does a decent job, unfortunately not as clean as the plugin search, as you can see it adds threads from other sections too.

[George Notaras]

Yeah, it needs more search terms. It seems the forum link in the breadcrumb is not enough to isolate the forum. BTW, if the forum name existed in the title element of a topic page, eg WP-Advanced subforum, perhaps it would be easier to limit the search results to a specific subforum with the intitle: operator.

[Aurovrata Venet]

Yes, you’re right and in fact it would take very little additional elements placed in support pages to leverage the full potential of google advanced search facility and perform useful custom searches.

I have raised a ticket on the meta trac to suggest modifying the title.

[nrtfm]

Excellent work dude!

[Aurovrata Venet]

ur wc!

[Paul Coughlin]

I say Genius!
Using the available tools to solve the problem:Priceless

[zecka1213]

Awesome thank you

[Luke Cavanagh]

@aurovrata

Thanks for sharing that solution.