Is there a different way to search the blogs on here?

[Great_scot_selfbuild]

Is there a way I can view a list of the blogs, rather than just see the latest entries (which then needs me to select one and then again to click the blog title above the entry to see the list of entries associated with that blog)?

 

Additionally, can I view them as a list, so I can scan the titles quicker rather than the huge 'thumbnails' and having to slowly scroll through the pages?

 

I really must find some time to publish some of our own journey on here, but I want to structure it in a way that is more useful to look back on.

 

Thanks

[JohnMo]

If I need to search for anything on here, I do a Google search 

[JohnMo]

5 minutes ago, Great_scot_selfbuild said:

but I want to structure it in a way that is more useful to look back on.

Individual topics?

[Great_scot_selfbuild]

1 minute ago, JohnMo said:

If I need to search for anything on here, I do a Google search 

I'd just like to see a list of blog titles, rather than the latest posts that happen to have been published. I'm not searching for anything in particular - just want to scan the blog types to see which ones I want to dip into.

[LiamJones]

I agree, I think blogs are very hidden here, coming from other forums I was used to seeing them front a centre. I love being able to follow people’s journeys, but here it’s hard. I’ve kinda got used to it now and just browse recent activity. A way to see all blogs, with options to order search, order by views, posts, most recent post. Or even build type, budget, stage, you could think of loads of ways to search for interesting blogs/projects.

[LiamJones]

The forum generally pushes people to publishing disconnected threads about specific problem, rather than document progress via blogs.

[Great_scot_selfbuild]

7 minutes ago, LiamJones said:

I agree, I think blogs are very hidden here, coming from other forums I was used to seeing them front a centre. I love being able to follow people’s journeys, but here it’s hard. I’ve kinda got used to it now and just browse recent activity. A way to see all blogs, with options to order search, order by views, posts, most recent post. Or even build type, budget, stage, you could think of loads of ways to search for interesting blogs/projects.

@LiamJones yes - exactly that (all points)

[Nick Laslett]

@Great_scot_selfbuild,
 

Blogs may not be the primary focus here, but they are still easy to access and follow.

 

What is missing is that the Browse/Blogs tab, just lists the latest blog entries in date order, and you have no way of knowing if this is of interest to you. 
 

You can use the website Activity/Search function to just search blogs to find those that might be of interest to follow. Select “Search by Tags”, under Content type, select “Blog”. Enter some tags for topics which match those you are interested in like “foundations”, “timber frame”, “ashp”. You will then see the blog posts that have these tags. 
 

Once you have found a blog you want to follow then it is easy to get automatic updates, etc, using “My Activity Streams”. You can even create a custom activity stream just for Blog content. 

 

The quality of the bloggers tagging will have a big impact on how effective this type of search of blogs will be, but it is one place to start. 
 

Here is the search for blog posts that mention cladding:

 

https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/search/?&type=blog_entry&tags=cladding&search_and_or=and

 

They do try to promote tags, but it is down to the users to add them, here is a plea from the forum on the topic. 
 

https://forum.buildhub.org.uk/topic/2783-tags-please-use-them/

 

When you start a topic, you are responsible for adding the tags, not sure if this can be done after the edit window has closed. So for example this topic could have been tagged with blogs.

 

Edited Friday at 21:28 by Nick Laslett

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