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Search syntax

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Start with a few words, then narrow the search using these examples, inspired by recent posts on The Standard.

All words
unemployment statistics

Find both words, anywhere in the indexed text. A space means AND; unemployment & statistics also works.

A phrase
"data centres"

Find these words next to each other, in this order. Use straight double quotes, as shown.

Either word
Labour | National

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Leave a word out
election -Trump

Find election while excluding Trump. election !Trump also works. Include a positive search word; -Trump on its own is not a valid search.

Group alternatives
(Labour | National) unemployment

Find unemployment together with either Labour or National. Parentheses make combinations easier to read.

Words near each other
"coalition government"~5

Find these words close together, in either order, allowing fewer than five intervening words.

In a title
@title "data centres"

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In the body
@body "tactical voting"

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By an author
@author lprent @body search

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In a category
@category politics

Match words in indexed category names. Use the Categories checkboxes to select a specific category and its descendants.

In a tag
@tags election

Match words in indexed tag names. Use the Tags checkboxes to select a specific tag. Comments inherit their parent post’s categories and tags.

Combine fields
@title election @body (Labour | National)

Require election in the title and either Labour or National in the body. A field applies to following words until another field or the end of its parenthesized group. @* switches back to all fields.

Which fields work with @?

The current index supports @title, @body, @author, @author_full, @category and @tags. @author_full lprent searches the same author text as @author lprent; it uses the same word-matching rules.

The date columns published_utc, calendar_day and date_added are numeric attributes used for filtering, date counts or ordering. They cannot be searched with @: expressions such as @published_utc 2026 or @calendar_day 20261107 produce a query error. Use the From and To (inclusive) controls for dates.

Likewise, use Content for posts, pages or comments, and the Categories and Tags checkboxes for specific terms. Their numeric IDs and content-type attributes cannot be searched with @.

For example, enter @title election, select Posts, set From to 2026-01-01 and To (inclusive) to 2026-11-07, then press Search. This combines the title search with an inclusive date range in the site’s time zone.

Find recent posts

Select Posts only and Newest first. In Text Search or Archive Explorer, set From to one year ago and To (inclusive) to today, then press Search. The sidebar opens Text Search, where you can add these dates. For comments, the date range uses the comment’s own date.

Try @title election, @title "data centres" or unemployment statistics. Recent starting points:

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Check Content and the date, category and tag filters. English word endings may match the same stem, so quotes fix word order rather than spelling. Wildcard searches such as elect* require index settings that the plugin’s default configuration does not enable.

Enter the expression itself in the box; choose dates and ordering with the controls. For example, use Labour | National for alternatives.

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The Carnival is over

· advantage

The carnival is over. It was fun, but it's done. Key will get his little patriotic poll bump. But it will be swept away like the confetti. We have over 6% unemployed. We have a housing crisis - sky-high rents, incompetent state housing, and developer…

Economy john key national

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Open mike 05/11/2015

· notices and features

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

open mike

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Daily Review 04/11/2015

· notices and features

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Daily review

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NRT: The SIS is unfit for purpose

· notices and features

I/S at No Right Turn... The SIS is unfit for purpose The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security released their annual report [PDF] this morning. The headline news is buried in a single sentence right near the end: I cannot conclude that NZSIS had sound compliance…

accountability Spying

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The education review

· Anthony R0bins

National is initiating a review of education. Jolly good, what's that about? Let's see: Education review to ask big questions The government has begun a review of the Education Act and it is asking the most fundamental question of all - what is education for?…

education schools

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Open mike 04/11/2015

· notices and features

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

open mike

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Daily Review 03/11/2015

· notices and features

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Daily review

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Welcome Marama Davidson

· notices and features

Welcome to new Green MP Marama Davidson: Parliament has a new MP - Marama Davidson replaces Russel Norman Auckland-based Marama Davidson has entered as Parliament's newest MP, replacing Green Party stalwart and former co-leader Russel Norman. ... Davidson makes up the party's fourth member of…

greens Parliament

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DoC Staff Striking during Conservation Week

· RedLogix

How far removed from a 'cloth-capped mob of union-stirrers and industrial saboteurs' would the staff of the Department of Conservation be? These people would have to be among the most valued and generally respected public sector workers in the country. And now they are reduced…

Conservation Environment uncategorized

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Open mike 03/11/2015

· notices and features

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

open mike

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Daily Review 02/11/2015

· notices and features

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Daily review

Post

30 Years after ANZUS (and we’re doing fine)

· Anthony R0bins

Friday night's headline on One News - Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit - was obviously wrong with respect to the explosive "nuclear" claim. The headline now reads - Defence force may be in talks to allow US ship visit.…

defence history us politics

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More than a million comments

· lprent

As at right now (08:30 NZST 2nd November 2015 1),  we passed having more than a million approved and published comments. Many years ago when we had just 500,000 comments when Eddie made this graphed prediction based on the steady growth of the site. As I said…

admin The Standard

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Dear Stuart Nash

· mickysavage

Stuart Nash has burst into print over at the Daily Blog. It is an interesting post. He talks about how the Labour Party is now more united and disciplined.  Fair call.  I am pleased to see that this is happening. He talks about how winning…

blogs Media The Standard

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Fouling our nest

· Anthony R0bins

New Zealand is a beautiful country, and tourism is our second biggest earner of foreign exchange. We'd be stupid to trash the place, right? But last week: Swathes of native forest in collapse, say conservation groups Swathes of native forest are in collapse, conservation groups…

climate change Conservation farming sustainability water

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Open mike 02/11/2015

· notices and features

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

open mike

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Paying a generous wage

· Anthony R0bins

The story of an enlightened employer (in the US): Here's What Really Happened at That Company That Set a $70,000 Minimum Wage ... An entrepreneur since he was a teen, Price prided himself on treating employees well at Gravity, which he co-founded in 2004 with…

business employment wages

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Indonesia is burning

· mickysavage

There is a catastrophic event happening in one of the world's more populous nations which is receiving very little attention from the media.  Indonesia is burning and no one is paying attention. George Monbiot said this in the Guardian on the subject: A great tract of Earth…

climate change disaster Environment global warming

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Open mike 01/11/2015

· notices and features

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

open mike

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ABs vs Australia

· notices and features

Will the All Blacks be the first team to defend a RWC title? For those staying up to watch the game....

sport

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Finally Fighting for Democracy?

· Bill

So I’m sitting here drinking a morning coffee and I read in The Guardian that Obama is sending troops to Syria. And I’m thinking things like “arse-hole” and “bastard” and “fuck off!” But then down the bottom of the article there’s Former US diplomat Robert…

International Syria war

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US ship visit and nuclear free NZ

· Anthony R0bins

Andrea Vance broke a potentially explosive story on One News last night: Defence force may be in talks to allow nuclear ship visit (video). Nuclear ship? Red alert!! An invitation to the US has been extended, this is part of the Royal New Zealand Navy's…

defence identity us politics

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