WP Extended Search
Extend search functionality to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types, and all authors.
4.9
(72 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping WP Extended Search running.
Tested to 6.9.5 — 1 branch behind 7.0
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.8 months ago
At least 1.6 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.7.0
Your host must be running at least this version.4.9
1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how WP Extended Search is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
80
out of 100Maintenance
26 / 35WordPress compatibility
14 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
14 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
4.9
72 ratingsWP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin.
With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt.
Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms.
For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML.
Features
- Search in selected meta keys
- Search in category, tags or custom taxonomies
- Search in the post author name
- Include or exclude any public post type
- Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all
- Compatible with WooCommerce. Search in product SKU, Attributes, variations, and custom fields, etc.
- Create unlimited search settings to use with custom search forms.
- Add search forms using a widget, shortcode or PHP function. Also works with custom searchform.php
- Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date)
- Customize the number of posts to display on the search results page
- Customize SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms
- Customize order of search results
- Control whether to match search query exactly or partially
- Limit attachment results by mime type e.g. display only pdf files in search results.
- Translation ready
- Compatible with WPML
Links
Yes, It is. When WooCommerce is active you will see a new checkbox in setting “Optimize for Products Search” select it and then the search results will use the default WooCommerce template or the template from your theme.
You can use the Widget, Shortcode, and PHP function to display the search form. Also, you can add a hidden HTML field to your existing searchform.php template.
Yes, you can. You can modify the global setting to alter the results from the default search form. An extra search form is needed only when you would like to have more than one search criteria on the site.
Yes, you can. Go to the Search Settings and select Global in setting name, there you will see a button to disable the global search.
As global search is disabled now you can add a new search form with specific search criteria.
You can add custom CSS to the theme to style the search form. Or you can set CSS classes in the widget, shortcode, and PHP function.
Also, you can add a complete custom template for each search setting in the theme.
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