CogDogBlog » bava http://cogdogblog.com Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Sat, 26 May 2012 00:01:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ Ye Old WordPress Blog Search Thingie http://cogdogblog.com/2010/01/27/old-wp-search-thingie/ http://cogdogblog.com/2010/01/27/old-wp-search-thingie/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:48:20 +0000 Alan Levine aka CogDog http://cogdogblog.com/?p=4638 I have an old JavaScript bookmark tool I made five years ago– it allows me, from no matter where I am on the web, to either select some text in a page (or enter in a box) and run a search for it in my own blog. This came from realizing that the basic wordpress search URL was always something like:

http://www.myfreakyblog.org/index.php?s=cheddar+cheese

And with my mediocre JavaScript tools, I made a site that allows anyone yo make one for their own blog– the Make A WordPress Search Bookmarklet tool — which to my utter surprise, still works.

It’s prety easy- you enter the name of the blog, its base URL, and click “Build The Bookmark”- drag the generated JavaScript link to your toolbar, and you are done.

So for example, let’s say I have some B movie blog I want to make the tool for, I enter its name, the URL (http://bavatuesdays.com/), and shazam, I can search the Bava no matter where I am browsing:

And from there it runs the search for me- oh, what a surprising result!

Seriously, Jim, just wanted to share that this is a tool I use all the time as I try to find the old references in my blog.

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