ajberasategui

This plugin provides a Search Widget similar to the default WordPress one but with the abilty of adding category select 
lists to restrict the search query to only those categories.
Any comments, reviews, support questions are very much welcome!!!

AB Categories Search Widget

Insert a search form widget that allows visitors to add category filters to the search query.

mkhaledche

This plugin shall redirect the user to the archive page whether it was a category or a tag or an author archive page if he searched for the archive page related term.
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<h4>Free Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Redirects directly to the category or tag or author archive pages from search</li>
<li>Can control whether to show which of the three archive page types to be shown</li>
<li>Works with Polylang plugin</li>
</ul>
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Pro Features
All features from Free version included plus:
<ul>
<li>Supports custom post types and custom taxonomy terms (e.g. shows the archive page for Woocommerce products, product categories, brands, …etc.)</li>
<li>Shows archive pages in search results : If redirecting directly to the search result is not the optimal choice for your website (e.g. for websites using live search or just wanting to show other results on search), PRO version can show the archive page as a result in search results.</li>
<li>WPML Support: For a multilingual website working with WPML, redirect will not work except for main language. PRO version handles compatibility with WPML and Polylang for the basic option of redirecting directly to archive page or displaying the archive page in search results.</li>
<li>Create custom queries for the archive page: If you want to display the soccer category when the user searches for the word “football”, PRO version handles this either through redirecting to soccer archive page or through showing “soccer” archive page in search results. You can assign any word you want to the term you like.</li>
<li>Control the archive page to be in search: If you do not want an archive page to appear from search, you can simply delete it from the options page.</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatibility</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.codester.com/items/14787/archive-pages-in-search-pro-wordpress-plugin.html?ref=mkhaledche" rel="nofollow ugc">Upgrade to Pro Now</a>
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If you have a question or a suggestion of an idea idea you’d like to see in the plugin, you can <a href="mailto:mkhaled.che@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">email me.</a>

Archive Pages in Search Lite

Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.

AB Categories Search Widget vs Archive Pages in Search Lite