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WP Extended Search

By 5um17

Description

WP 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, 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
  • Translation ready
  • Compatible with WPML

Links

Screenshots

  • WP Extented Search settings page
  • Add/Delete Settings
  • Edit setting name

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

Is it compatible with WooCommerce?

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.

How can I add a search form?

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.

Can I use my default search form widget?

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.

Can I use this plugin just to add a specific search form to my site and leave the WordPress default search as it is?

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.

How can I customize the search form?

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.

Reviews

It’s Good But

5 July 2021
It's good and can be made to work very simply and easily with just the Shortcode. I have tested it out on a couple of sites and the search calls up the relevant posts and pages, however, there is a site where nothing is found. And before you say deactivate other plugins, themes etc - this has been done over and over again. I'm now onto the theme creators. But I wonder if I need to add the php function as well?

Crucial to the user experience. Works with any theme.

18 April 2021
Well configured on-site search is absolutely crucial to the user experience, and with WP Extended Search you can configure the native WordPress search to your hearts content. If you use WooCommerce, you can include (or exclude) product category, tags etc, and if you add other custom post types or fields, there is no way around fine-tuning search to include those fields. The greatest thing about WP Extended Search is that it tweaks the native search functionality, and it’s thus compatible with whatever theme it’s used in combination with.

Works out of the box

18 March 2021
Thank you for this plugin! I use it for our sports club web page (WP 5.7). You may have an idea: How can I search with an "and not" condition?

Nice plugin [and works with Crocoblock’s]

5 January 2021
Excellent work with this plugin! Light, fast and highly customizable. The version 2.0.1 of WPES it's compatible with Crocoblock's JetEngine [2.6.2] custom post metafields, and the live ajax refresh of Listing Grids through the Search Filter widget from JetSmartFilters [2.1.0], that uses the native WordPress search option — All of that after a very little tweak on the "class-wpes-admin" document on this plugin! All my custom fields from JetEngine starts with a "_": _ubicacion (_location), _nombre-autor-a (_author-name), _contenidos (_contents), etc. (7 more). So, when the document "class-wpes-admin" from WPES says: $wp_es_fields = $wpdb->get_results( apply_filters( 'wpes_meta_keys_query', "select DISTINCT meta_key from $wpdb->postmeta where meta_key NOT LIKE '\_%' ORDER BY meta_key ASC" ) ); I just changed 1 character: "where meta_key NOT LIKE '\%'" [erased underscore]. It listed all the custom fields that I was looking for. On the downside, it also threw me a bunch of results (between 30-40 new checkboxes) that are present in the WordPress database (wp_postmeta). I had to select the corresponding fields using Ctrl + F for a faster search. After testing with others plugins, this was the only search plugin that let me accomplish the custom meta field ajax live filtering directly on the Listing Grids from JetEngine (and not only on Archives), without being overriden by the JetSmartFilters plugin (that forces a search only on titles if you select the "native wordpress search" option; if you select "by custom field", it only allows you to enter one meta key; no more than that). Sorry for the extension of this review. I didn't post this on support, because... There's no problem with your plugin. It's great! 😀 Greetings from Chile! PD. Sorry if my english is bad =).

how you did it ?

22 December 2020
I do have over 12K posts to look through, that's true, but I was hopeless in seeing that my site took over 2 minutes to show results. With WPES results are showed in max 2 secs! A true life saver!
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Contributors and Developers

“WP Extended Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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“WP Extended Search” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Change Log

2.0.3 – 2021-08-04

  • Fixed search issue in WC settings > Advanced tab
  • Fixed fatal error with WP 5.8 on new widget screen (Still not compatible with block-based widgets.)

2.0.2 – 2021-04-11

  • Fixed issue with WooCommerce pages.
  • Fixed issue with backend REST requests.
  • Added Select2 for admin pages.

2.0.1 – 2020-12-18

  • Fixed errors in dashboard for non-admin users.

2.0 – 2020-12-11

Upgrade Notice
2.0 went through code refactoring and major feature updates. Please make a complete site backup before upgrading.

  • Added new feature to add multiple search settings.
  • Added WooCommerce product search support.
  • Complete code refactoring.

1.3.1 – 2020-07-25

  • Fixed issue with ACF relationship post field admin search.
  • Fixed issue with Elementor admin search.
  • Added support for new query variable disable_wpes to disable WPES search.

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_filters issue. 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

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