Andrew Stichbury

<p>Admin Search makes searching your WordPress website easy by bringing results from all your post types, media, taxonomies, comments, users and admin pages together in a single, simple-to-use interface, seamlessly integrated into the WordPress admin interface.</p>
<p>Choose which post types and taxonomies are searched and the number of results displayed for each. Admin Search also supports custom post types and taxonomies.</p>
<p>Admin Search is a lightweight plugin with filter hooks for deep customization.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search everything on your WordPress site, anywhere</li>
<li>Simple and easy to use</li>
<li>Sources of search results are customizable</li>
<li>Extend the search query with filter hooks</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configure & Extend</h3>
<p>Admin Search can be extended by using filter hooks. The following filters are available:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>admin_search_query</code> to modify the search query string. The filter argument supplied is a string containing the search query</li>
<li><code>admin_search_sources</code> to modify the search sources. The filter argument supplied is an array of sources, add, remove or modify sources</li>
<li><code>admin_search_posts_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>WP_Query</code></a> arguments array for all searched post types. The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>WP_Query</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments</li>
<li><code>admin_search_{Post Type}_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_query/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>WP_Query</code></a> arguments array for a specific post type. The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>WP_Query</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments. Replace <em>{Post Type}</em> with the name of the post type to modify</li>
<li><code>admin_search_terms_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>get_terms</code></a> arguments array for all searched terms (taxonomies). The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>get_terms</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments</li>
<li><code>admin_search_{Term}_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_terms/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>get_terms</code></a> arguments array for a specific term (taxonomy). The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>get_terms</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments. Replace <em>{Term}</em> with the name of the term to modify</li>
<li><code>admin_search_comments_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_comment_query/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>WP_Comment_Query</code></a> arguments array for all searched comments. The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>WP_Comment_Query</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments</li>
<li><code>admin_search_users_query</code> to modify the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_User_Query/" rel="nofollow ugc"><code>WP_User_Query</code></a> arguments array for all searched users. The filter argument supplied is an array of <code>admin_search_users_query</code> arguments, add, remove or modify supported arguments</li>
<li><code>admin_search_website_titles</code> to modify the labels array for external websites. The filter argument supplied is an array of predefined domains and titles, add, remove or modify domains and titles</li>
<li><code>admin_search_pre_results</code> and <code>admin_search_post_results</code> to modify the results array before or after results are appended to the array. The filter argument supplied is an empty array for <code>admin_search_pre_results</code> or search results for a given query for <code>admin_search_post_results</code>, add, remove or modify result items</li>
<li><code>admin_search_fields</code> to modify the searchable fields array. The filter argument supplied is an array of searchable fields (<code>post_title</code>, <code>post_name</code>, <code>post_excerpt</code> and <code>post_content</code>)</li>
<li><code>admin_search_meta_queries</code> to add custom fields to the searchable fields array. The filter argument supplied is an empty array. Use this filter instead of <code>admin_search_fields</code> when adding custom fields</li>
</ul>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>Modify the query string before a search is initiated</p>
<pre><code>// Correct the spelling of dog when searching
add_filter( 'admin_search_query', function( $query ) {
    if ( 'dog' === $query ) {
        $query = 'doggo';
    }

    return $query;
} );
</code></pre>
<p>Modify the <code>WP_Query</code> parameters before a search is initiated</p>
<pre><code>// Exclude post with the ID 96
add_filter( 'admin_search_posts_query', function( $query ) {
    $query['post__not_in'] = array( 96 );

    return $query;
} );
</code></pre>
<p>Add a custom field to the searchable fields</p>
<pre><code>// Add the price custom field to the searchable fields
add_filter( 'admin_search_meta_queries', function( $fields, $post_type ) {
    if ( 'post' === $post_type ) {
        $fields[] = 'price';
    }

    return $fields;
}, 10, 2 );
</code></pre>
<p>Modify the search results after a search has initiated</p>
<pre><code>// Add custom results from external API
add_filter( 'admin_search_post_results', function( $results, $q ) {
    $results[ 'custom' ][ 'post_type' ] => array(
        'name' => 'custom',
        'label' => 'Custom'
    );

    $json = file_get_contents( 'https://example.com?search=' . $q );
    $obj = json_decode( $json );

    foreach ( $obj as $item ) {
        $results[ 'custom' ][ 'posts' ][] = array(
            …
        );
    }

    return $results;
}, 10, 2 );
</code></pre>


Admin Search


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The plugin exceeds my expectations

Admin Search adds a simple, easy-to-use interface to your WordPress admin site that gives you and your admin users the ability to search across multip …

Peter Stehlík

<p>Highlights search term (customizable colours), collects search analytics (privacy friendly), extends default search engine or disable search completely. WP Search Tools, brand new 2024 WordPress plugin, is a collection of useful improvements to the site search functionality if used or not.</p>
<h4>Search Analytics</h4>
<p>Do you know what people search for on your website, actually?</p>
<p>WordPress core doesn’t store any statistical data, but the WP Search Tools plugin shows detailed insights about the history of searched terms. The Insights is a great analytics tool which tells you what users really look for. No personal data is saved.</p>
<p>There are 3 overviews:<br />
1) All Users<br />
2) Logged in<br />
3) Guests (not logged in users)</p>
<p>Each overview data is represented by a graph and popularity lists.</p>
<p>The graph data can customized and exported either as an image (.svg or .png) or as a .csv file. Most frequent search terms are sorted by a date: ‘today’, ‘last 7 days’, ‘last 30 days’, ‘this year’, ‘overall’.</p>
<h4>Highlight Search Term</h4>
<p>In the search results page, the search term is highlighted with a smooth, eye-catching CSS animation. The highlight feature is activated by default.</p>
<p>User experience is enhanced and visual mark speeds up finding relevant information. Furthermore, highlight settings are customizable, both background colour and text colour can be set in the WordPress administration options page.</p>
<h4>Extend Search</h4>
<p>Free version of the plugin extends the default search engine. It allows searching in custom post types, taxonomies, authors and meta data. All these data of the website are hidden to the basic WordPress search engine and cannot be reached via search functionality.</p>
<p>The results are ordered by relevance not post date. The settings can be customized to fit exact needs. It is possible to choose which post types, meta data or taxonomies should be included in the search.</p>
<h4>Disable Search</h4>
<p>The plugin prevents WordPress from allowing and handling any search requests from the front-end of the site. If search is not used on the website, it is useful to disable it completely. The seach form is hidden, if called with a standard <code>get_search_form()</code> function, the search requests redirect to a 404 error page. The setting is customizable, you can turn it on/off.</p>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>collects search terms what people look for</li>
<li>displays graph with recent data</li>
<li>highlights search term</li>
<li>sorts data according to the users (logged in, guests) and dates</li>
<li>highlights the term if it has no results</li>
<li>shows basic overview on the Dashboard</li>
<li>extends default search engine with post types, meta data, taxonomies, meta data</li>
<li>orders search results by relevance</li>
<li>settings are customizable</li>
<li>disable search</li>
</ul>
<h3>Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.wpsearchtools.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.wpsearchtools.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/inovative-sk/search-tools" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
</ul>


Search Tools – Advanced Search Analytics, Highlight, Extend, Disable

The advanced search plugin shows analytics, what users look for, can export data, highlights search term, extends default WordPress search engine.

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