Alternatives to AB Categories Search Widget
Insert a search form widget that allows visitors to add category filters to the search query.
Snapshot
Rating: 4.9/5 (7 reviews)
Downloads: 6,940
Active installs: 80
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 3.5
Tested up to: 3.7.41
Requires PHP: f
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No Category Base (WPML)(34)•Updated 68d ago
This plugin removes the mandatory 'Category Base' from your category permalinks. It's compatible with WPML.
100,000 installs1,032,018 downloads75/100 • Actively maintained
List category posts(254)•Updated 156d ago
Very customizable plugin to list posts by category (or tag, author and more) in a post, page or widget. Uses the [catlist] shortcode to select posts.
80,000 installs4,382,441 downloads61/100 • Maintained
Media Library Assistant(200)•Updated 71d ago
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
70,000 installs2,695,948 downloads76/100 • Actively maintained
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms(193)•Updated 88d ago
Tags, Categories and WordPress terms are easy with TaxoPress. Add a Tag or Category to Pages, manage your WooCommerce Categories and Tags and more.
50,000 installs5,932,799 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Ultimate Category Excluder(77)•Updated 231d ago
Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
50,000 installs556,704 downloads44/100 • Stale
Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks(58)•Updated 84d ago
Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.
50,000 installs522,395 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 63d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,794,872 downloads65/100 • Actively maintained
Media Library Categories(52)•Updated 121d ago
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
20,000 installs566,946 downloads46/100 • Maintained
FV Top Level Categories(23)•Updated 348d ago
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
20,000 installs251,156 downloads42/100 • Stale
Post Tags and Categories for Pages(23)•Updated 222d ago
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
20,000 installs249,017 downloads42/100 • Stale
BulkPress(52)•Updated 3184d ago
Add posts, pages, categories and custom post types and taxonomy terms in bulk! Managing vast amounts of content made a walk in the park!
10,000 installs117,837 downloads26/100 • Possibly abandoned
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce(28)•Updated 110d ago
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
10,000 installs98,340 downloads46/100 • Maintained
Visual Term Description Editor(21)•Updated 731d ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
10,000 installs98,726 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Category Excluder(16)•Updated 4716d ago
The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.
700 installs302,233 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Taxonomy Meta Box Filter – Search taxonomies from the editor(0)•Updated 257d ago
Adds a search field above each taxonomy metabox in the post editor, making it easier to manage categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
40 installs1,598 downloads38/100 • Stale
Faceted Search(3)•Updated 5201d ago
This plugin will create widgets that you can use to conduct faceted searches using the categories or tags on your site.
30 installs13,584 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category Search(0)•Updated 4256d ago
Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.
30 installs7,919 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Logarithmic Pagination(1)•Updated 4865d ago
This plugin inserts pagination to your blog, archives and search results based on logarithmic calculation for a more evenly distributed link-juice.
20 installs3,347 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Super Search(0)•Updated 5500d ago
Generates a drop-down list and a text box to allow your visitors to search for posts within specific categories.
20 installs11,475 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Archive Pages in Search Lite(1)•Updated 1564d ago
Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.
10 installs2,184 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned