Aaron Axelsen

<p>The Advanced Search Widget is designed to be a replacement to the defaut search widget.  The Advanced Search Widget allows you to search for only a<br />
specific post type and also select which fields to query (title, content, tags).</p>
<p>In addition, it is also possible to place multiple widgets onto the sidebar to search through different custom post types.</p>


Advanced Search Widget

Allows you to add a widget to search custom post types along with other options

finnj

<p>Frontier Query enables you to query your WordPress site from search form, widget and shortcodes.</p>
<p>Build shortcodes using the Frontier Query Shortcode builder – It has never been easier to construct a shortcode, and you can see the result while trying diffrent options.</p>
<p><a href="http://wpfrontier.com/category/plugins/frontier-query/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search posts</li>
<li>Frontier Query Widget </li>
<li>Frontier Search Widget</li>
<li>Info box to be used in post and pages with shortcode (see screenshots)</li>
<li>Display, Filter and Group results (Widget, Shortcode & Search) by:
<ul>
<li>Category</li>
<li>Tag</li>
<li>Taxonomy</li>
<li>Post Type</li>
<li>Publish date (Year, Month or Day)</li>
<li>Author</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Customize the Infobox with several different layouts.</li>
<li>Results are cached for performance</li>
<li>Infobox and Widgets are context aware – Get filter values from archive pages or posts:
<ul>
<li>Author</li>
<li>Category</li>
<li>Tag</li>
<li>Taxonomies</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ul>
<li>[fq-search] Short-code for advanced search </li>
<li>[fq-infobox] Shortcode to place in post and pages to display post break down</li>
<li>[fq-shortcode-builder] a WYSIWYG wizard where you can build and view your shortcode output   </li>
<li>[frontier-query] this will display the results from shortcodes and widgets.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="http://wpfrontier.com/frontier-query-shortcodes/" rel="nofollow ugc">Shortcode Documentation</a></p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Danish</li>
</ul>
<p>Let me know what you think, and if you have enhancement requests or problems let me know through support area</p>
<h4>Frontier plugins</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-post/" rel="ugc">Frontier Post</a>  – Complete frontend management of posts</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-query/" rel="ugc">Frontier Query</a>  – Display lists and groupings of posts in post/pages and widgets.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-buttons/" rel="ugc">Frontier Buttons</a>  – Full control of tinymce toolbars and buttons buttons</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-set-featured/" rel="ugc">Frontier Set Featured </a>  – Set featured image aut. based on post images </li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-media/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Media </a>  – Restrict media access to users own media</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frontier-restrict-backend/" rel="ugc">Frontier Restrict Backend </a>  – Restrict access to the backend (wp-admin)</li>
</ul>


Frontier Query

It works for me - You can see it in action on: http://wpfrontier.com/frontier-query-demo-categories/



It works for me

Display list and grouping of posts in widgets, posts and pages. Breakdown posts by categories, taxonomies, date, post type etc.

Advanced Search Widget vs Frontier Query