Title: problem finding any words!
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# problem finding any words!

 *  Resolved [tahoom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tahoom/)
 * (@tahoom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-finding-any-words/)
 * Hi
    with your plugin I couldn’t find any word even I searched for a simple “a”
   but it didn’t find anything. Where the problem could be?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/string-locator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/string-locator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * (@clorith)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-finding-any-words/#post-6556005)
 * Hi,
 * Were you trying to search the entire WordPress directory, or a specific plugin?
 * It could be something as simple as the search timing out because there’s too 
   many files compared to how long your host will let a script run, which isn’t 
   uncommon when searching everything, but searching an individual theme or plugin(
   like twentyfifteen for example) should work.
 *  Thread Starter [tahoom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tahoom/)
 * (@tahoom)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-finding-any-words/#post-6556008)
 * You are right, the plugin find the specific word in specific theme.
    Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * (@clorith)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-finding-any-words/#post-6556153)
 * Hi,
 * Just thought I would follow up on this thread quickly and mention that 1.8 was
   just released which has a rewritten search procedure.
    It now uses AJAX calls
   to perform the search and as such you should not be experiencing these timeouts
   when performing large searches on shared hosts or low-execution time setups. (
   and it also has a spiffy progress-bar to show the search progress!)

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 * Last reply from: [Marius L. J.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clorith/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-finding-any-words/#post-6556153)
 * Status: resolved