Alfred.app Custom Searches for WordPress and Web Development

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These are the custom Alfred.app searches that I have that help me with my web development, whether it be WordPress or in general. Feel free to use and add your own in the comments area or via twitter. Just send them to @tw2113 and I can retweet for you. Click the links to automatically add them to your own custom search list.

WordPress.org

http://wordpress.org/search/{query}

WordPress Plugins

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q={query}

WordPress PHPXref

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/nav.html?_functions/{query}.html

WordPress Trac

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/search?q={query}

WordPress Trac Ticket

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/{query}

jQuery API

http://api.jquery.com/?s={query}

PHP.net*

http://php.net/{query}

*changed to Kailey’s url string.

Mozilla Developer Network

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q={query}

Github

https://github.com/search?q={query}

Builtwith

http://builtwith.com/?q={query}

w3c Spec via Google

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:w3.org+{query}

Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/search-results/?q={query}&sa=&cx=partner-pub-6779860845561969%3A5884617103&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8

New Ones From Kailey Lampert in the comments

WordPress.org theme search

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?sort=&q={query}

QueryPosts.com function lookup

http://queryposts.com/function/{query}

2 thoughts on “Alfred.app Custom Searches for WordPress and Web Development”

Kailey Lampert says:

2012.11.28 at 1:09 am

Here’s a few that I use:

PHP.net search: http://php.net/{query}

WordPress.org plugin search: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?sort=&q={query}

WordPress.org theme search: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/search.php?sort=&q={query}

QueryPosts.com function lookup: http://queryposts.com/function/{query}

Drew Jaynes says:

2013.01.07 at 10:42 pm

Over time, doing a Google ‘site’ search to search Trac gets a lot better results. Here’s the string I use for that:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:core.trac.wordpress.org+{query}

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