Brady Vercher

Cedaro

<p>Better Internal Link Search improves the default internal link searching feature in a number of ways, making it faster and easier to find the content you want to link up.</p>
<p>The most basic feature limits results to posts and pages that contain your search term in the title, rather than returning every post that contains the term in the title <em>or content field</em> — this greatly reduces the number of results on sites with a lot of content and should improve accuracy.</p>
<p>Beyond that simple change are more powerful features that can be customized for your particular site, including creating shortcuts for often-used links and even searching external sites without leaving WordPress!</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Search by post or page title when adding links to the editor or adding pages to a nav menu.</li>
<li>Includes terms from any taxonomy in the search results so you can easily link to term archives.</li>
<li>Scheduled posts are included in search results.</li>
<li>Text highlighted in the editor when opening the internal link popup is searched for automatically.</li>
<li>Adds a shortcut for quickly linking to the homepage. Just type ‘home’.</li>
<li>Provides the ability to create custom shortcuts with a little code.</li>
<li>Powerful modifiers included for searching additional data sources to make linking fast and easy (Wikipedia, GitHub, iTunes, Spotify, Codex).</li>
<li>Extendable so developers can add their own sources.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Typeahead Search</h3>
<p>Instantly see search results for pages, posts, media items or other custom post types on their Manage Posts screens. As soon as you start typing in the search field, the table instantly updates with results for whichever post type you’re viewing. Pressing enter or clicking the search button will continue to return posts using the default search algorithm (post titles and content).</p>
<h3>Additional Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/better-internal-link-search#postform" rel="ugc">Write a review</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/cedaro/better-internal-link-search" rel="nofollow ugc">Contribute on GitHub</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/cedaroco" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow @cedaroco</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.cedaro.com/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=link&utm_content=better-internal-link-search-readme&utm_campaign=plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit Cedaro</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Screencast</h3>
<p>Eric Amundson over at <a href="https://ivycat.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ivy Cat</a> recorded this great overview of the plugin’s features:</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Better Internal Link Search - WordPress Plugin Highlight" width="750" height="563" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WfyTiVTdEX8?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>


Better Internal Link Search

Should be in core

Improve the internal link popup manager with time-saving enhancements and features.

joe_bopper

<p>Adds search box as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.</p>
<p>Features include:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>now compatible with the WordPress appearance customizer</strong>,</li>
<li>search box available as a choice in the admin area for navigation menus,</li>
<li>as many boxes can be added to a nav menu as one likes,</li>
<li>search boxes can be added as children of other menu items (useful for, e.g., mega-menus),</li>
<li>capacity to change button text, placeholder and css classes from the admin area to each search box,</li>
<li>hooks to modify output (see FAQ and/or code comments),</li>
<li>very lightweight,</li>
<li>in keeping styles, html, behaviour, etc., with wordpress defaults,</li>
<li>works straight out of the box, no configuration needed.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Those wanting to translate this plugin, please do.</h4>
<p>I believe the plugin is in a translatable state and I’ll do everything I can to help in translation. It should be relatively quick as there isn’t much text to the plugin.</p>


Bop Search Box Item Type For Nav Menus

I like the way it behaves like any menu item so you can position and decorate it how you want. Thanks to Joe for putting me right on how to get at the placeholder text.

Nice Plugin

Adds search box as a choice of item in navigation menus admin area.

Better Internal Link Search vs Bop Search Box Item Type For Nav Menus