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)(33)•Updated 101d ago
This plugin removes the mandatory 'Category Base' from your category permalinks. It's compatible with WPML.
100,000 installs828,972 downloads56/100 • Maintained
List category posts(253)•Updated 104d 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 installs4,254,327 downloads56/100 • Maintained
Media Library Assistant(196)•Updated 120d ago
Enhances the Media Library; powerful gallery and list shortcodes, full taxonomy support, IPTC/EXIF/XMP/PDF processing, bulk/quick edit.
70,000 installs2,440,389 downloads65/100 • Maintained
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – AI Autotagger with OpenAI(184)•Updated 74d 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 installs5,678,467 downloads78/100 • Actively maintained
Ultimate Category Excluder(76)•Updated 292d ago
Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.
50,000 installs543,415 downloads44/100 • Stale
Remove Category URL(58)•Updated 102d ago
This plugin removes '/category' from your category permalinks. (e.g. /category/my-category/ to /my-category/)
50,000 installs448,767 downloads56/100 • Maintained
Category Posts Widget(79)•Updated 205d ago
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts from a single category.
40,000 installs1,779,239 downloads54/100 • Stale
Media Library Categories(52)•Updated 275d ago
Adds the ability to use categories in the media library.
20,000 installs551,660 downloads44/100 • Stale
FV Top Level Categories(23)•Updated 167d ago
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
20,000 installs246,306 downloads54/100 • Maintained
Post Tags and Categories for Pages(23)•Updated 1173d ago
Adds the built in WordPress categories and tags to your pages.
20,000 installs230,653 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
BulkPress(52)•Updated 3002d 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(27)•Updated 440d ago
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce. This plugins requires WooCommerce to be installed and activated
10,000 installs86,701 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Visual Term Description Editor(21)•Updated 549d ago
Replaces the plain-text category and tag description editor with a visual editor.
10,000 installs94,552 downloads30/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Category Excluder(16)•Updated 4534d ago
The No.1 content separator, content manager, content excluder, sidebar widget manager plugin to enable CMS like functionality.
700 installs301,497 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Faceted Search(3)•Updated 5019d ago
This plugin will create widgets that you can use to conduct faceted searches using the categories or tags on your site.
30 installs13,199 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Category Search(0)•Updated 4074d ago
Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.
30 installs7,643 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Logarithmic Pagination(1)•Updated 4683d ago
This plugin inserts pagination to your blog, archives and search results based on logarithmic calculation for a more evenly distributed link-juice.
20 installs3,160 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Super Search(0)•Updated 5319d ago
Generates a drop-down list and a text box to allow your visitors to search for posts within specific categories.
20 installs11,120 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Archive Pages in Search Lite(1)•Updated 1382d ago
Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.
10 installs1,953 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Taxonomy Meta Box Filter – Search taxonomies from the editor(0)•Updated 76d ago
Adds a search field above each taxonomy metabox in the post editor, making it easier to manage categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
10 installs880 downloads59/100 • Actively maintained