Four secret Blogdrive goodies that you should never know

While we are constantly complaining about how much Blogdrive can improve, let's take a moment to be reminded of all the good stuff we have here on Blogdrive that you shouldn't have known.

If you are reading this article right now you should turn off the lights and make sure there's nobody behind you. If you are discovered to have obtain these information, an assassin will be sent to murder you.

1) Built-in search feature - Search your own blog with the blogdrive's built-in search feature, it's originally only available for subscription blogs but if you use a GET method on your url, you'll get a free (temporary) feature. However, it only search your blog titles.

2) exceed your bandwidth - for free accounts, an allocated amount of 50mb monthly bandwidth can be exceeded even without any upgrades. If you have a subscription blog, your allocated monthly bandwidth will be higher but again your files will not fail to load in the event that you exceeded it. So, what are you complaining about? (please note: you can't store more than what you should)

3) store HTML / CSS / JS documents in your filemanager with .jpg extensions. Okay, this is supposed to be a techy hack but it works.

4) the amazing Seige - this isn't just a goodie thingy but the coolest lad I've ever known on Blogdrive. He's smart, brilliant and above all massively fantastic. Oh, did I mention that he's got a great sense of humour?

Do you have other ideas or suggestions?

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BlogDrive Search Features

There might be something really major going on in the background of Blogdrive because several features aren't working at the moment. This includes the just recently discovered problem with the search feature.

There are two types of search feature within Blogdrive:
1) Search Entries - which is available to all Blogdrive users including free accounts. It can be accessed from within the blog admin area.
2) Visitor Site Search - which is only available to Blue Steel (plan 3) subscriber and it can be accessed from the main page of your blog.

Just very recently, some interesting changes have been observed by Gloria and myself. We both uses free blogdrive accounts (this blog is on a free account)

1) Both of the search feature no longer search for keywords within entry bodies.
2) Both of the search feature only search for keywords within entry titles.
3) Visitor Site Search works on Free accounts too. Try this: Blogdrive.

Weird? Weird indeed.

Well, I hope something nice is coming up soon. And I suspect we'll be suffering one more "Upgrading Server" situation to implement these new upgrades.

Tags: Blogdrive, Search, Features,