Run a content search

What's inside this article:

• Basic information
• Search for content
• Search by keywords
• Clear search filters
• Sort results
• Search filters: Overview
• Statuses: Overview
• Find content from other sites
• Find scheduled content

Basic information

This article explains how to search for content in Pangea CMS. A content search lets you discover the following types of content:

Text:

• Article | Backgrounder | Blog | FactCheck | Feature | Feature story | Live blog | News | Transcript

Multimedia:

• Audio clip | Audio feature | Broadcast program | Document | Loop video | Photo gallery | Slider gallery | Video

Interactive:

• Dynamic infographics | Poll | Quiz | Snippet | Static infographics

To learn how to search for images, see the alternative article below:

• Run an image search

Search for content

To search for content:

1. Select the Content tab.
2. If needed, hit Clear to clear existing search filters.
3. According to your needs, enter keywords / adjust filters.
4. Hit Search.

The results refresh to match your search criteria. You can sort the results if needed.

Search by keywords

Keyword search in Pangea CMS works as follows:

• The results will show all valid items with a match for your keywords in at least one of the following fields:
  • Title
  • Introduction
  • Content
• You can enter a single keyword or a phrase. If you enter a phrase, consider surrounding the phrase with quotes ("") for more precise results. For example, if you enter "cats are wonderful creatures" (with quotes), the results will show only items that contain this exact phrase. If you enter the same phrase without quotes, the results might also show items that contain all these keywords separately in a different order.
• The results will only show items with an exact match for your search query. For example, if you enter "Zelenskyy", your results will not show items that use other spellings (such as "Zelensky" or "Zelenskyi").

Clear search filters

After you run a search, your filters will be saved and stored for future searches. If you do not want to use the previous filters, you can clear them before running a new search. To quickly clear the filters, hit the Clear button.

After you hit Clear, the default filters are restored. According to the default filters, the results show all content that was created / published by your site within the last 30 days. Older content is excluded. If you want to find content that is older than 30 days, select All under Publication date.

Sort results

In the Sort by menu, you can set the order of the results.

The following options are available:

• Latest modified: Sort content from newest to oldest, based on when the content was last updated.
• First modified: Sort content from oldest to newest, based on when the content was last updated.
• Latest published: Sort content from newest to oldest, based on the date of publication (for published content) or creation (for unpublished content).
• First published: Sort content from oldest to newest, based on the date of publication (for published content) or creation (for unpublished content).

Search filters: Overview

You can use filters to find specific content.

The following filters are available for a content search:

• Site: Show content from another site under your entity, show content from all sites under your entity, or show only content from the current site.
• Publication date: Select a time period. The results will only show items that were published or created during your selected time period.
• Content type: Select one or more content types. The results will only show your selected content types.
• Categories: Select one or more Categories. The results will only show items that have at least one of your selected Categories. For information about Categories, see the following article:
  • Introducing Categories
• Status: Select one or more status groups. The results will only show items from your selected status group.
• Approval status: Select one or more approval statuses. The results will only show items that have one of your selected statuses. Approval statuses support updates to published content. For details, see the following article:
  • Update published content
• Authors: Select one or more authors. The results will only show items with one of your selected authors. For information about authors, see the following article:
  • Introducing authors
• Modified by: Select one or more Pangea CMS users. The results will only show items that were modified at some point by one of your selected users.
• Tags: Select one or more tags. The results will only show items that have at least one of your selected tags. Tags are custom labels or keywords, used for internal content organization. For details, see the following article:
  • Assign tags to a content page
• Project marking: Select one special project. The results will only show items from your selected project. For information about Project marking, see the following article:
  • Introducing Project marking
• PangeaGO uploads: If you tick this option, the results will only show items uploaded from the PangeaGO mobile app. You will only see items that were uploaded after April 8th 2025. For information about PangeaGO, see the following article:
  • Introducing PangeaGO
• Content sharing: If you tick this option, the results will only show items that were originally created as copies / clones. For details, see the following article:
  • Copy or clone a content item
• Include deleted content: If you tick this option, the results will include items that were previously deleted from Pangea CMS. You will have the option to restore a deleted item.

Statuses: Overview

Each content item in Pangea CMS has a publication status. The status is signaled by the icon next to the title. Hover over the icon to see the name of the status.

You can filter the search results by status. Under Status, select your preferred status group:

• Draft: Find items with the Draft status.
• Edited: Find items with the Edited status.
• Published: Find items with the Published, Stealth published, and Scheduled statuses.
• Waiting: Find items with the Canceled, Draft, Processing, Uploading, Upload failed, and Waiting statuses. This option is useful if you are looking for a file that was manually uploaded to Pangea CMS (video, audio, or document).

Find content from other sites

Using the search in Pangea CMS, you can find content from partner websites under the same entity. For example, if your site is under RFE/RL, you can find content from other RFE/RL sites.

Under Sites, one option must be selected. Based on your selection, the results will include:

• This site: Only content from the current site.
• Other sites: Content from all sites (excluding the current site).
• All sites: Content from all sites (including the current site).
• Specific site: Only content from the specific site you select.

It is not possible to edit content from other sites. However, the following options might be helpful:

• Make a copy / clone of an item. For details, see the following article:
  • Copy or clone a content item
• Hit the Live site button to see a page on the public site.

Find scheduled content

Pangea CMS lets you schedule automatic publication of a content page for a specific time and date in the future. For details, see the following article:

• Schedule publication

To quickly find scheduled content using search:

1. Select Scheduled under Publication date & time.
2. Under Status, select nothing or Published.
3. Hit Search.

The results refresh to show only scheduled content. Scheduled content is marked with the Scheduled icon.