I often find myself trying to find a comment I posted some time ago by browsing through the "Recent activity" link in My Account. This can be frustrating and time consuming to find what I'm looking for.
When I try using the standard search, I rarely get the results I'm looking for when I try, for example, searching the community forums and adding the user:ed-johnson filter to my search (that's probably an issue for another thread - I might be doing something wrong). However, this feature wouldn't require remembering which site I posted on, which is important for someone in my age group! ;)
I'm pretty sure the filter for searching is 'author', not 'user'. Try that?
And I usually use Google instead of Wikidot's search - it's easier. e.g. "search-term site:community.wikidot.com"
But I agree that this would be useful and thus have rated it up.
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
Wikidot: Wikidot Editor, Official Docs
Other: YouTube (gaming, primarily Minecraft)
No, the syntax help in the side-bar when searching says:
I was actually looking for the thread where you and I were discussing site cloning. You said that the 100 page limit didn't apply when cloning via site manager. I found out today that that's not the case. I tried cloning one of my sites with 120 pages or so and got the 100 page limit error message. Sorry for going off topic, but I still haven't found the thread! :)
Thanks for rating this one up.
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I think I found a while ago that the searching help in the side-bar was wrong, but never reported it… I'll try both 'author' and 'user' now and see what results I get.
And that's strange with the cloning limit. I'll have to test that myself as I was sure it was working in the site manager for large sites… as long as you are the master administrator you should have the ability to clone your whole site - or so I thought. Another thing I'll test in a moment…
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
Wikidot: Wikidot Editor, Official Docs
Other: YouTube (gaming, primarily Minecraft)
Okay, can't clone. That sucks. A lot. posted a wish to request that it be allowed again: That a site admin can clone their own sites (>100 pages)
And it seems I was wrong about the searching parameter as well - it is 'user' xD
~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
Wikidot: Wikidot Editor, Official Docs
Other: YouTube (gaming, primarily Minecraft)