Blogger GuidesBlogger search operators for filtering posts and pages
The search box in Blogger's Posts view understands operators. They are useful as soon as you have more than a few hundred posts.
How to use them
Open the Posts or Pages view in Blogger and type an operator in the search box. You can combine operators. After a search, save the browser address to come back to the same filtered list later, as Blogger's help suggests.
The operators
| Operator | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|
sort: | Sorts. Values: created, published, updated. A minus sign reverses the order | sort:-published |
index: | Starts at a position (default 0) | index:500 skips the first 500 |
status: | Filters by draft, published or scheduled (scheduled only for posts) | status:draft |
author: | Posts by an author | author:amy |
title: | Words in the title | title:dinner |
body: | Words in the post text | body:afternoon |
label: | Posts with a label | label:friends |
"..." | Several words as one term | title:"dinner and movie tonight" |
, | Several values (status, title, body, label) | title:dinner,movie |
start_published_date: and end_published_date: | Posts published in a time range | start_published_date:2019-04-16 |
The same pairs exist for updated and created dates (for example start_updated_date: and end_created_date:).
Recipes
- Find old drafts you forgot:
status:draft sort:created. - Your newest scheduled posts:
status:scheduled sort:published. - Everything with the label "recipes" that is still a draft:
label:recipes status:draft. - Posts you edited this month:
start_updated_date:2026-11-01. - Find a thin post to fix: search a word with
body:and look through the results. - Page through a very long list:
index:100shows records from 101 onwards.
Tips
- Dates are written year-month-day, as in the examples.
- Put multi-word terms in double quotes.
- Operators work in the dashboard only: they do not change what readers see.
- Try one operator at a time first, then combine them.
Why bother
A blog with hundreds of posts becomes hard to maintain: which posts are still drafts, which were not updated for years, which have a label you want to rename? These operators answer such questions in seconds, and with the saved address you can bookmark your most useful lists.
Do operators work on comments?
Blogger's help describes them for the Posts and Pages views.
Is status:scheduled available for pages?
No. The help says scheduled is only available for posts.
Sources
Read on 13 November 2026. Steps and screen names can change; compare with the current help page.
This is an independent guide. It is not connected with Google or Blogger. Blogger, AdSense and Google are names of Google LLC. The steps follow Blogger Help and AdSense Help as read on 13 November 2026; the Blogger screens change from time to time, so a menu may be named a little differently on your screen.