Search and Filtering Basics

Search and tag pages can help you find new blogs to follow, new posts you’ll want to see, and connect with folks who share your interests.

Search pages will include posts, blogs, and related searches that include the word or phrase you searched for.

Tag pages will show you only posts that have been tagged with the specific term or phrase you’re using. If you’re on web, you’ll also see top blogs in that tag, as well as related tags to check out.

Can’t find your own post in search or tag results? Give it a few minutes. It can take some time for posts to get indexed. In the meantime, have a look at our guide to Appearing In Search Results. Still having problems?

From the dashboard, you can put your cursor in the search field. Doing so will reveal a dropdown with your followed tags (Check out our article about following tags here) and other recommendations.

Type the word or phrase you’d like to browse and you’ll see the options in the dropdown change.

Search pages will show you results based on the words you typed. To the right of the search results, you’ll also see:

• Related Communities
• Related Tags
• Related Blogs

At the top of the search results, you’ll be able to sort or filter by:

• Top
• Latest
• Just communities
• Just blogs
• Just tags
• And many more with the filter icon at the top-right.

Tag pages will show you results based on the tag you selected. To the right of the tag results, you’ll also see:

• A button to follow the tag.
• A button to quickly start a post using that tag.
• A list of related tags.

At the top of the tag results, you’ll be able to sort by latest or top.

In the app, you can tap the magnifying glass icon to open the Explore page. Here, you can find your followed tags, along with a mix of recommended and trending content.

Tap the search bar at the top of the Explore page. You’ll see several recommendations, along with any recent searches you’ve conducted.

To clear out your search history, tap the X to the right of “Recent.”

You can type the word or phrase you’d like to browse and you’ll see the options in the dropdown change.

Tapping a tag will take you to the tag page, and tapping a search term will take you to the search page.

Search pages will show you results based on the words you typed.

At the top of the search results, you’ll be able to sort or filter by:

• Top
• Latest
• Just posts
• Just communities
• Just tags
• Just blogs
• Select a specific date range
• And many more with the All Types drop-down.

Tag pages will show you results based on the tag you selected.

At the top of the tag results, you’ll be able to sort by latest or top.

Do you want to check out when a certain post was published? Click the meatballs (●●●) to reveal the timestamp, along with options to report the post, block the blog, and copy the post permalink.

If you want timestamps to always display in the post, reblog trail and note views, turn on “Show timestamps on posts, reblogs, and notes.”

You can change this in your dashboard settings.

1. From the dashboard, click on “Settings” in the left sidebar
2. Click on “Dashboard” on the right side
3. Under “Interface”, toggle “Show timestamps on posts, reblogs, and notes.”

1. Tap the account icon (little person)
2. Tap the cogwheel at the top
3. Tap “General settings”
4. Tap “Dashboard preferences”
5. Toggle “Show timestamps on posts, reblogs, and notes.”

At this time, Search Operators only work on posts from 2017 to present day.

If you’re having trouble finding something that you know was posted on a specific date, year, blog, or more, search operators are your friend!

When you surround your query with regular double quotes (not curly quotes), it will match posts with that exact phrase in the post’s text content, or that exact phrase as a tag.

For example, "chappell roan is roan of arc" matches posts with that exact phrase in the content, and also matches posts that have the exact tag #chappell roan is roan of arc.

By default, the query matches the post on either the text or the tags.

You can use match:text to specify you want to search the post content, or match:tags to search the post tags. For example:

• sword world match:text looks for posts with the words “sword” and “world” in the post content.
• sword world match:tags looks for posts with the words “sword” and “world” in the post tags.

Use from:blog or from:@​blog to find only posts by a particular blog.

For example, halloween from:staff finds all posts by @staff that has the word “halloween” in the post content or tags.

Use year:YYYY to find posts from a particular year.

For example, halloween year:2019 finds all posts from 2019 that has the word “halloween” in the post content or tags.

Use date:YYYY-MM-DD to find posts from a particular date.

For example, halloween date:2019-10-08 finds all posts created on October 8, 2019 that has the word “halloween” in the post content or tags.

Use since:YYYY-MM-DD to find posts created since a particular date.

For example, halloween since:2019-10-08 finds all posts created since October 8, 2019 that have the word “halloween” in the post content or tags.

Use before:YYYY-MM-DD to find posts created before a particular date.

For example, halloween before:2019-10-08 finds all posts created before October 8, 2019 that have the word “halloween” in the post content or tags.

You can combine since and before operators to limit your search to a specific time range.

You can combine all the tools above to form even more specific queries, like: "first of halloween" match:text from:staff year:2019