Comment Search
You guys are generating an amazing amount of feedback on your blogs. Matt mentioned in the April Wrap-Up that there were 8.6 million comments! Comments are flying in every second of the day.
And have you ever had one of those blog posts that was good, but the real action was in the comments? The blog post is only half the story, it’s the feedback from everyone else that fills in the rest. To make it easier to find the second half of these stories we’ve added comment search to WordPress.com search.
Select the comments options from the WordPress.com search page and we’ll hunt through the millions of comments that have been added to WordPress.com blogs to find what you are looking for. To reduce the comment inferiority complex you get many of the same features and options as post search: sorting by relevance (the default) or most recent, limit results by blog (like site:gigamom.com) and an easy way to subscribe to new matches via an RSS feed ( the Follow this search via RSS link at the bottom of the sidebar).
Comment search, because it was about time comments got a bit more respect.
May 14th at 6:48 pm
I can’t wait to search for “lol” or “I agree”.
May 14th at 6:55 pm
Very good one! Congratulations!
May 14th at 7:02 pm
8.6 million comments… wow!!
May 14th at 7:05 pm
Another new feature? Awesome!
Keep updating!
- Lora
May 14th at 7:11 pm
yea man pretty nice feature
May 14th at 7:38 pm
Oooo what a good idea!
May 14th at 8:20 pm
This is AWESOME. So often I go back to look for a thread on someone’s blog that I commented on and have no idea where it is. Searching comments is a fantastic addition.
May 14th at 9:27 pm
[this sounds promising]
May 14th at 9:35 pm
Thanks for adding this very useful feature. I appreciate it.
May 14th at 10:01 pm
Intriguing.
You guys sure have been busy with the new features lately!
May 14th at 10:12 pm
You know what I realized? Because of my freakily infrequent name, I can use this to keep tabs on replies to my comments when people respond to me by name. (Individual results may vary. Not recommended for those named Mike or Jen.)
May 14th at 10:20 pm
good…even if i’ve only a few comments…
May 14th at 10:34 pm
You guys are on a roll this month! At this rate, we’ll be expecting new features every hour or so by next year..
Way to go, and keep ‘em coming!
May 14th at 10:39 pm
That is a good idea even though it is something I do not need at this time! I will get more and more comments in the future and then I will use it a lot. Thank you. You guys are really working hard!
May 14th at 11:00 pm
Is the search widget also searching for comments inside our blogs too now?
May 14th at 11:22 pm
Not yet.
May 15th at 12:25 am
I love commenting and I love comments.
Often the real action takes place on the comments page especially on social issues blogs like Nitawriter that is hugely popular (India issues).
Thank you.
May 15th at 1:56 am
Awesome! Thanks! I asked for this just 2 short months ago on one of the suggestion forums….Thanks Thanks Thanks!
May 15th at 2:53 am
I love my wordpress blog … thank you for all!
Latina
May 15th at 4:02 am
Once again thanks.
May 15th at 4:13 am
This is such a great innovative idea. Glad to see it’s fully functional.
May 15th at 5:23 am
It’s great to see those thousands of dollars each user is paying being put to good use!! You Guys (and Gurls) just keep getting better and better ! ThanX. Keep it coming…
May 15th at 5:48 am
Whoa, that’s awesome! I’m kinda overwhelmed with the huge amount of improvement you guys have been doing here over the last couple of weeks! Thank you very much! Once again, I have to say: WordPress has the best team ever!
May 15th at 6:46 am
I appreciate the “kaizen” – Continuous Improvement Philosophy at WP!
Very Well Done….
May 15th at 7:11 am
Oh, this is great! Thaks you guys!
May 15th at 8:27 am
Wow – the improvements come in everyday
May 15th at 9:23 am
Yes thats our Blog
) .. we posted only short review, and new review after 300 coments each pages/post. We enjoyed commenting. Thanks WP.. !!!
May 15th at 9:24 am
Great!!. Comments are very essential to know the detail about some published contents. Thank you
May 15th at 9:31 am
you guys are so active these days…
great job… you’re really making blogging here much easier!
May 15th at 12:47 pm
I have a request: what about a collaboration with backlink/twitter to get backlinks from Twitter and other social media “credited” to what we post in our blogs?
That would be
pushing you guys over the toptotally rad.But it is great to see that you are doing so much to encourage people to comment, comment well and comment often…
Blogs are dead, long live the blogs!!!
May 15th at 1:08 pm
May’s been very busy for the WP.com team! Good work!
May 15th at 1:37 pm
Great idea! It seems like every few days you guys are adding new and useful features.
May 15th at 1:56 pm
Great thing. I agree that often comments and conversation are better than the blog post that started them. To be able to search through these convs is surely innovative.
May 15th at 2:09 pm
Thanks for the hard work wordpress! Wow 8.6 million comments that’s a lot of comments.
May 15th at 2:43 pm
Another good improvement from WordPress crew. Coolie…!!!
May 15th at 2:57 pm
I love you guys for all the great stuffs you all keep coming up with. This is something I always missed on wordpress… and here you all have filled in that gap as well. Thank you!
May 15th at 3:50 pm
i like it..
thanks alot
May 15th at 4:51 pm
Good feature.
May 15th at 5:18 pm
Yes! Now I can search through every one of my 10 comments! lol. (go eksith!)
May 15th at 5:32 pm
It’s Great , Its Really another Awesome feature From WordPress …
May 15th at 6:02 pm
Oh, this is a feature I missed. Fine!
May 15th at 9:34 pm
great idea. I often forget which posts i commented on someone’s blog.
May 16th at 2:22 pm
Can may users also search comments in my blog ?
Thanks for the feature.
May 16th at 7:11 pm
Anyone can use WordPress.com search.
May 16th at 6:01 pm
good stuff
May 16th at 8:55 pm
That is so cool.
May 17th at 5:27 am
WordPress is amazingly improving.
Congrats!
May 17th at 6:28 am
yes that is niiiiiiice! way to go..
May 17th at 9:46 am
wow 8.6 million comments are flying in every second of the day?
wow thats great!
May 19th at 3:03 pm
That was 8.6 million comments for the month of April.
May 17th at 2:03 pm
Thanks. It would be even better if you add the “search comments” feature to the search widget unique to a given blog.
May 19th at 3:04 pm
That’s something we’re considering.
May 17th at 6:36 pm
is there a feature that helps us choose whether the comments show up on searches or not? i mean, what if i want the blog-posts to turn up on searches, but not really the comments (i’m guessing that blogs – political,religious, anti-somethings) that overly get negative feedback might want the feature)…i mean, they like the feedback, but just dont want the blog to be identified by it.
i’m only speculating (possibly with little vindication), but this is …well, …just a thought.
May 19th at 3:06 pm
If the post is public then so are the comments. There’s currently no way to request that a comment be hidden on a public post.
May 18th at 12:39 pm
very useful, thanks indeed.
May 18th at 1:57 pm
thank you
May 19th at 1:07 am
great feature…
May 19th at 8:47 pm
this is a great thing
May 20th at 3:05 am
bwaha! search this! ^_^
May 20th at 7:38 am
Yes, comment space is the other half best story. Many times in the comment lines we do get very spontaneous ideas and thoughts that the persons/readers not necessarily express it in a post or they may not have the patience or time or appetite to create a blog and put it in a post. In that sense, comment lines do provide many times very critical as well as appreceiting inputs on many issues. Enabling search facility for the comments is really a commendable addition on the part of the WordPress. Thanks.
May 20th at 12:03 pm
8.6 million comments!!!!!!!!!! thats a lot
May 20th at 3:11 pm
Searching comments is a fantastic addition!
May 21st at 5:48 am
s there a feature that helps us choose whether the comments show up on searches or not? i mean, what if i want the blog-posts to turn up on searches, but not really the comments (i’m guessing that blogs – political,religious, anti-somethings) that overly get negative feedback might want the feature)…i mean, they like the feedback, but just dont want the blog to be identified by it.
i’m only speculating (possibly with little vindication), but this is …well, …just a thought.
Jul 30th at 1:28 pm
Sorry, but, no. We don’t currently have a feature that will make comments private. Thanks for the suggestion
May 21st at 7:23 am
Thank U for W
May 21st at 10:57 am
Superb
May 21st at 6:23 pm
WordPress keeps getting better and better. You just made my day!
May 21st at 7:09 pm
You guys just continue to thrill us. Period!
May 21st at 11:25 pm
YAY! What a great idea, I can’t wait to try it. You guys/gals rock!
#80
May 22nd at 5:04 am
its so amazing
May 22nd at 5:53 am
Thank you, this is brilliant. What incredible action around WordPress!
May 22nd at 5:49 pm
thanks! good feature!!
May 23rd at 9:56 am
another good idea
May 23rd at 9:59 am
This is one of the best feature that i have seen
May 24th at 11:20 pm
I’ve been blogging for awhile at blogger; but, I’ve realized I get more traffic here when I rarely blog than when I blog at blogger regularly!
Why? I don’t know. I think I’m moving back, though.
Laura
May 25th at 3:44 am
Cool!
May 25th at 5:46 am
Can’t agree more about upgrading comments. The issue of filtering to remove spam, and providing easy access remains. I’m setting my (business) students assignments in which they will be encouraged to leave comments on the blog.
May 25th at 7:00 am
Thank you! yesterday i was dizzy looking for a comment from my friend. luckily, with this feature i can find it easily! many thanks..
May 25th at 6:45 pm
This should be interesting… Visit my blog!!! It’s something to do. LoL
May 26th at 6:24 pm
I invite all WordPress users to visit my website
Thanks, hope you visit again.
May 26th at 11:47 pm
TITANIC
May 27th at 9:05 am
This is another come pli ment to WordPress! Rock on…
May 28th at 1:15 pm
Very Needed. Thanks a ton. Makes going through comments a breeze.