To continue from our last conversation regarding the feedback we received from all the well wishers, supporters and visitors of the blog.
Some of you asked how to effectively search old postings and/or any particular post.
There are various ways you can search the blog:
Use the Search box at the top right hand corner of the blog. Type any keyword and the blog will produce the results accordingly.
Use the Category drop down menu (located at the right hand panel of the blog) to look for specific items. All of our published posts have been categorized appropriately.
Use Google’s Advanced Search: just specify the blog address [https://ismailimail.wordpress.com] in the field where it says “Search within a site or domain” and type any keywords you may be looking for. Google also provides a separate blog search service which is very efficient [http://blogsearch.google.com/].
Use Calendar widget (available at the side panel of the blog) if you know the estimated day/year of the posted story you may be looking for. Clicking on the day or month will result in the appropriate posted stories.
Consequently, you can also use Archive drop-down menu.
We have recently added Most Used categories – as live feeds – at the right hand side panel of the blog. Categories like, Interviews and Speeches, Ismaili Muslims in the News, etc, can come handy if you’re looking for anything specific which may not be visible on the front page. Please note that we have also added the feed from official website of the Ismaili Muslim community, another regional blog, translation tools, and few other services. We will cover this topic later in detail.
Another easiest way to search is to just scroll-down the front page and then keep on clicking Older Posts link at the bottom. You can pretty much find everything ever posted, by browsing the blog one page after another.
It is important to note that the format of the blog will always be different from the regular web sites, i.e, the latest post will always show up at the top in chronological order, unless modified on purpose.
If you are a subscriber to our blog via email or RSS feeds, then you can also search contents in your inbox or feed reader programs.
Above is just a simple overview of searching from layman’s perspective. Feel free to add as a comment, any other tips or tricks you know.
…to be continued.
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