Title: Solution for searching Plugin specific support thread Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # Solution for searching Plugin specific support thread * [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/) * 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 * wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module * I use Google’s [advanced search functionality](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) [`link:` operator](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html#link) in combination with the [`site` operator](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html#site). 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:wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module site:wordpress. org/support/topic/` * I can add keywords to the search such as * `slider form link:wordpress.org/support/plugin/contact-form-7-multi-step-module site:wordpress.org/support/topic/` * Happy searching! Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * [tranthuphuong](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tranthuphuong/) * (@tranthuphuong) * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225061) * Thanks for your sharing. Great * Thread Starter [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225077) * you’re welcome 🙂 * [George Notaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnotaras/) * (@gnotaras) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225089) * 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). * Thread Starter [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225091) * I tried a couple of searches for similar topics as this thread, using the following query * `searching "plugin support" threads link:wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous site:wordpress.org/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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnotaras/) * (@gnotaras) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225105) * 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. * Thread Starter [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-7225107) * 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](https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1656) to suggest modifying the title. * [nrtfm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nrtfm/) * (@nrtfm) * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-8371007) * Excellent work dude! * Thread Starter [Aurovrata Venet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * (@aurovrata) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-8396905) * ur wc! * [Paul Coughlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pcoughlingmailcom/) * (@pcoughlingmailcom) * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-8509001) * I say Genius! Using the available tools to solve the problem:Priceless * [zecka1213](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zecka1213/) * (@zecka1213) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-8843271) * Awesome thank you * [Luke Cavanagh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lukecavanagh/) * (@lukecavanagh) * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/solution-for-searching-plugin-specific-support-thread/#post-8900645) * [@aurovrata](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aurovrata/) * Thanks for sharing that solution. 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