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How to Search a PubWriter Site (or any other site)

Added by Brian Schwartz about 8 years ago

How to Search

We may develop more advanced search capabilities for PubWriter in the future, but until we have a solution, you can use Google to search your site by using one of these two techniques.

The first recommendation - if you use Chrome, there's a great plugin you can use.

Otherwise, you can type searches right into the URL bar:

The convention looks like this:

site:<your site url> [search term]

For example, if you wanted to search the PubWriter Site, UkuleleSongbook.com.com for the word white you would type this into Google:

Or you can use Google's Advanced Search page:

Keep in mind that if you have any PDFs on your pubwriter site (in the directory within your pubwriter dropbox), Google will also search the text within the PDFs: