Description
Control WordPress default search to search in Post Meta, Categories, Tags or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. Admin can select meta keys to search in, also can control the default behavior of search in post title or post content.
You can include or exclude post types to appear in search results.
Features
- Search in selected meta keys
- Search in selected in-built or custom taxonomies
- Search in post author name
- Include or exclude any public post type
- Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all
- Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date)
- Customize the number of posts to display on 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
- Translation ready
- Compatible with WPML
Links
Screenshots
WP Extented Search settings page
Installation
- Install WP Extended Search from the ‘Plugins’ section in your dashboard (Plugins > Add New > Search for ‘WP Extended Search’).
Or
Download WP Extended Search and upload it to your webserver via your FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here. - Activate the plugin and navigate to (Settings > Extended Search) to choose your desired search settings.
FAQ
- Do you have any question?
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Please use plugin support forum
Reviews
January 22, 2020
I love the simplicity of WP Extended Search Settings!
October 25, 2019
I was looking for another plugin (to replace the abandoned Search Everything plugin), so I can extend the search feature at 2 different websites.
1) The search results of the native search widget can also include files from the media library.
2) Works flawless with the Product Search widget of WooCommerce. It can now also list search results by value of a custom product field.
Great lightweight plugin!
Guido
May 30, 2019
Useful plugin for advance search.
April 16, 2019
Working fine with our themes.
February 25, 2019
Great little plugin. I'm using WP 5.1 and it works fine. I installed it after I saw it recommended on a Pro (X) Theme forum as the built-in Search for this theme is dreadful. I needed to turn off Pages from the search and only allow Products as all the plugin-related (empty) pages were appearing in the search results.
October 12, 2018
This is good plugin but the results are not very relevant.
searched words: "hat cat"
found titles: what, bhat, arcat etc.
how can I limit the found titles: hat, cat, catan, hatas, cats, hats, hate, catu etc.
Thanks.
Contributors & Developers
“WP Extended Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“WP Extended Search” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Interested in development?
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Change log
1.3 – 2019-10-21
- Fixed media search issue
- Fixed conflict with search when adding new menu item in backend
- Added setting link in plugin action links
- Added feature to modify search results order
- Added feature to match search query exactly or partially
1.2 – 2018-08-17
- Fixed bbPress forum posts dissappear
- Fixed issue with Ajax calls
- Added feature to control search in post excerpt
- Added compatibility with WPML
- Added new filter wp_es_terms_relation_type
- Updated wpes_posts_search filter. Now you can access $wp_query object as a second argument
1.1.2 – 2016-06-06
- Fixed media library search is not working when plugin is active. Thanks @gazettco
- Fixed escaping issue in SQL query. Thanks again @brurez
- Dropped support of WP version older than 4.0
1.1.1 – 2016-01-26
- Added feature to support Ajax calls
- Fixed text domain issue
- Fixed
suppress_filtersissue. Thanks @brurez
1.1 – 2015-06-21
- Added feature to search in post author name
- Added feature to customize number of posts per search results page
- Added feature to control SQL query relation between search terms
- Added new filters in settings wpes_meta_keys, wpes_tax and wpes_post_types
1.0.2 – 2015-01-11
- Added support for post_type parameter in URL
- Exclude old content from search results
1.0.1 – 2014-10-03
- Fixed taxonomy table join issue
- Added new filters wpes_meta_keys_query, wpes_tax_args, wpes_post_types_args, wpes_enabled, wpes_posts_search
- Internationalized plugin.
1.0 – 2014-09-14
- First Release