Searching for Strings in Bloggeries Forums

[DuncanM]

I thought I knew how to do this, but seems not:
How do you search for a string in the forums?

Usually, I wrap the string in quotation marks; however, I just did a search in the Bloggeries forums, and the search function broke the string into its separate words and returned way too many results.

[DuncanM]

Okay, I haven't had any luck finding what I was looking for. I am sure, when I was a forum lurker, reading about a plug-in for WordPress or Blogger that cloaked affiliate links. Now that I am a registered member of this forum, I can't find it. I think it was called "nice links" or "cute links" or something to that effect.

Anybody know what I am talking about?

[merte]

I am lokking for a solve for this problem too. I had seen in a site but how are they doing this. I don't know. I hope somebody helps us.

[Nathan]

I'm afraid that I don't know what you mean. I think that probably the best way to search the forum is to use Google and restrict the results to the bloggeries.com domain. Google is just ever so much smarter at searching.

Try entering something like this into Google:

smart links site:bloggeries.com

That will allow you to search just Bloggeries.com. Of course I'm not sure exactly what you are searching for.

[DavidB]

Perhaps you are thinking of Pretty Link:

WordPress › Pretty Link WordPress Plugins

It is a Plug-in for WordPress that cloaks links, so if you don't want people to notice your affiliate links are affiliate links, you might like it.

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To answer your original question, I don't think the built-in search function that comes with a vBulletin forum offers the ability to search for strings. So, for example, if you were to do a search for "pretty link", it would probably return any instance of the individual words "pretty" and "link", instead of the complete phrase.

Like Nathan said, using Google would probably be your best option. You could go to the "Advanced Search" page and specify the constraints. For example, you could specify to limit the search to within the bloggeries domain. You could further limit the search to within the forum, instead of the entire bloggeries.com site, by specifying that you want the word "forum" to be in the URL. And you could also specify that you want to look for the exact phrase "pretty link".

Or you could do all this right from the Google front page if you are familiar with Google shorthand:

site:bloggeries.com inurl:forum "pretty link"

[DuncanM]

Thanks Nathan and DavidB for the helpful, and relevant, information.
If I could mark this thread "solved" I would (but I don't see an option for doing that).


I also see two posts by "tedy" and one post by "antivirdocqqf" that are complete gibberish. Are those posts in any legible human language?! What was the point of making them? Shouldn't the moderators or admin of these forums delete these posts?