Title: Plugin support forum search
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Plugin support forum search

 *  [patmifsud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patmifsud/)
 * (@patmifsud)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-within-plugin-support-forum?replies=8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-within-plugin-support-forum?replies=8)
 * Really shocked this hasn’t been implemented yet. I can’t imagine the literal 
   thousands of hours wasted by plugin authors across the globe responding to duplicates.
   4 years ago guys.

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898663)
 * The last reply there still stands. Everything here is open source and contributions
   are welcome. At the moment, no one has stepped up to contribute better search
   functionality for the plugin sub-forums.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898701)
 * Tip for plugin authors: Use evernote. Responding to duplicates is as difficult
   as copying and pasting.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898754)
 * Evernote, TextExpander, Alfred Powerpack, anything that can help you quickly 
   insert common answers will be a life saver. 🙂
 *  [George Notaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gnotaras/)
 * (@gnotaras)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898853)
 * Hello everyone and Happy New Year!
 * It is not certain that a general/plugin/theme-forum specific search box would
   actually resolve the issue, because there is no guarantee that anyone would actually
   use it. IMHO, a solution that would auto suggest similar topics while the users
   are writing the support request could stand a better chance of preventing them
   from posting a duplicate one. I did some digging in the bbPress plugin repository
   and it seems that the `bbPress Live Topic Suggestions` developers are doing that
   auto suggestion thing while the user is writing the topic title and, although
   I haven’t tested it and although I have no idea whether it would work well with
   a user base of the magnitude of these forums’ one, it does seem like a very good
   idea. And maybe most of the required code already exists in that plugin.
 * George
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898855)
 * Excellent, would definitely be worth considering once we have these forums on
   the current code base, thanks!

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 * In: [Requests and Feedback](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/requests-and-feedback/)
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 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-support-forum-search/#post-6898855)
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