WordPress.com Forums » Topic: please, please add a Search link

wank on "please, please add a Search link"

wank — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:26:50 +0000

So it was the easy-to-rectify c)! Yay!

andylee on "please, please add a Search link"

andylee — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:34:51 +0000

Hey, thanks!

matt on "please, please add a Search link"

matt — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 18:11:10 +0000

We aim to please!

victoriacarolina on "please, please add a Search link"

victoriacarolina — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:18:43 +0000

Hey, looks like the dev team is doing an "ask and ye shall receive".

Very nice, gentlemen.

andylee on "please, please add a Search link"

andylee — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:26:19 +0000

This has come up before.

Ah, I didn't think to search for "search". I see a thread from January 7 on the same topic. I guess I'm preaching to the choir as far as other users. Let's see if the site developers see fit to make the changes we'd like. For now I can bookmark the search page, and actually I'm not using WordPress.com as my main blogging site yet, though that could change.

victoriacarolina on "please, please add a Search link"

victoriacarolina — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:50:13 +0000

d) All of the above....

wank on "please, please add a Search link"

wank — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:35:12 +0000

This has come up before. There are a few possible reasons for it: a) the search function isn't reliable enough for anyone to promote its use, b) the search function is too hard on the server for the admins to promote its use, or c) these forums are just really, really badly designed. Take your pick.

mazzury on "please, please add a Search link"

mazzury — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:31:30 +0000

I second that :-S

andylee on "please, please add a Search link"

andylee — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:17:28 +0000

Please, please add a link to the search form in a prominent place on the main forums page as well as any other place a user is likely to want it. When I'm looking for help the *first* thing I look for is a search field. It's a little crazy to only show the link when I start a new topic ("Before posting a new topic, _be sure to search_ to see if one has been started already"). In the first place, I'm not likely to notice that the link has appeared. In the second place, if I'd had a chance to do a search, I might not have started the new topic.

The other place I found a search link was on the FAQ page. That's fine, but I shouldn't have to go fishing to find it.