Google site-specific search
October 8th, 2007
Often you want to restrict your search to a single website. A quick way to do this on Google is simple to add site:URL to your search query. For example, to search for "framemaker" within ITauthor.com:
This is particularly useful for WordPress blogs, given that WordPress search functionality is severely limited and, unless you know the secret hoodoo of getting WordPress to do what you want, only gives you the same number of results as the number of posts per page (in my case 5), and no way to get more results. I spent several hours this weekend researching possible solutions to get a "More results" link to appear on my results page, only to have to admit defeat. It seems like "Next page / previous page" functionality used to work in WordPress but is now broken.
So, as a workaround, use Google!
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