How to Include Search in a Wordpress Menu
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How to Include Search in a WordPress Menu

Here’s how to add a search box to your Wordpress menus. Many Wordpress themes don’t have any native way to add search to a menu; of course if your theme already offers the ability to put a search feature on your menus, that’s awesome, but your theme is in the minority. Why would you want to include a search feature in your menu? Well, you may want to include a search feature on your top menu so that people can easily find it. Or you may want to include a search feature in the menu which is displayed when people visit your site on a mobile device so they don’t have to scroll waaaaay down to find it on a sidebar (which gets moved below the main text in many mobile displays). All of this is possible with what we are going to tell you, and it’s easy!

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How to Search Mail Rules on a Mac

If you’re wondering why you can’t figure out how to search mail rules on your Mac, it’s because Apple has not included a way to search your email rules for the Mac Mail app. Stupid, right? You would think that with all the other things that Apple gets right, something as basic and obvious as a way to search mail rules would be a no-brainer. Anyways, if you need to search your mail rules, here’s how to do it.

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Here’s How to Find and View Google Cached Pages Results in 2022

Are you frustrated at finding Google cached pages gone? They aren’t really gone, but where to find Google cached pages is now inexplicably hidden. Happily, while the Google cached page arrow has disappeared, you can still access Google’s cached version of a search result page, you just need to know where Google has hidden access to cached pages. So here’s how to find and view cached pages in Google search results.

How to Google like a pro
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How to Google Like a (Internet) Gangsta

Google has become an important tool for most people. Unfortunately, this tool’s power levels tend to take a sharp blow in the average user’s hands (fingertips?).

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Mac Mail Search Not Working on Monterey, Big Sur, or Catalina? Do This

If your Mac mail search is not working in Catalina, Monterey, or Big Sur (or really any other version), read on! Sometimes it’s the most obvious, and simplest, thing that you do last. In 2021 (and now 2022) there were tons of articles and posts answering questions about how to fix email search on a Mac, and many of them suggest complicated (and yes, sometimes necessary) methods for restoring the search function for your Mac email, everything from reindexing Spotlight to reinstalling the OS (eek!). So if email search is not working on your Mac, we’re here to hopefully save you some frustration.

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How to Make Your Mac Finder Search Ignore Subfolders

When searching for something in Mac Finder in a folder, it can be frustrating to have Finder turn up all of the matches in all of the subfolders as well. Here’s how to make Finder only search the current folder, not subfolders, so that your Finder search will exclude and ignore subfolders.

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How to Search for and Find a Specific Amazon Review

Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday and the holidays in general, tis the season for online shopping. Have you ever read an Amazon review, and then later searched for that same review, only to not be able to find it? Frustrating, isn’t it? Here’s how to search for a particular review on Amazon.

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How to Search Online for Apps in the iTunes Store

This is quick little tutorial on how to search online for apps in the iTunes store, using your browser. You’d think it would be obvious as to how to search the iTunes store online, but Apple does not make it easy. In fact, the ‘search’ functon on the Apple site doesn’t help at all.

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Google Slips Ads in to Google Image Search Results

Google announced yesterday that they have started putting sponsored images in their Google image search results. By allowing Adwords advertisers to put image ads in the Google image search results, Google says that it is a new way “to be there and be useful for mobile shoppers.”

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How to Find and Search Your Paypal History in the New Paypal Interface

With the new Paypal interface, you may be wondering just “where the hell is my Paypal history?” And more specifically, how can I search my Paypal transaction history for an email address, a name, or a transaction or other ID, like you used to be able to do? If you are trying to find your Paypal history, here’s how to find and search your Paypal history with the new Paypal dashboard.

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The Supreme Court Cell Phone Search Decision in Riley in Plain English

Today the Supreme Court unanimously held that a warrant is required to search a cell phone, in the case of Riley v. California. Warrentless searches of a cell phone are not ok.

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How to do a Match.com Search by Name or Username

Match.com is one of the oldest, and best known, dating sites in the world. But its longevity also means that its user interface (UI) is a bit old and clunky. One example is that it can be difficult to figure out how to perform a Match.com search by name – i.e. how to search Match.com by username. Here’s how.

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How to Make Sure You’re Not Reading Fake Reviews on Yelp, Expedia, Trip Advisor, and Other Review Sites

Many consumers rely heavily on the reviews of others before making purchase decisions. Whether Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor or Expedia, consumer reviews tend to heavily influence all types of purchase decisions, from toasters to vacations.

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We Get Some Strange Searches

It’s always interesting to look at your web logs, to analyze the search terms, and to see what sorts of strange paths people have taken to find you.

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The Best Way to Search a Dating Site for What You Really Want

What a shame that you can’t do a Boolean or other sophisticated search on most dating sites. For example, maybe you are a man who wants to find a woman who loves snuggling, and she can be anywhere in the United States except California. Now, on Match.com or OKCupid.com or most other dating sites, you could do a keyword search for “snuggling”, and you can search the entire United States, or you can search one particular state. But you can’t search all of the states except California. Using this example, and the power of Google, we are going to show you how you can search a dating site for exactly the criteria you want.