Sirajum Mahdi

<p>Category Search Explorer brings advanced search capabilities to all your WordPress categories and taxonomies. Whether you’re managing a blog with numerous categories, an eCommerce store with complex product categorization, or a custom site with specialized taxonomies, this plugin makes content organization and discovery seamless.</p>
<h4>Works With All WordPress Categories</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Blog Categories</strong>: Easily search through your blog categories</li>
<li><strong>Post Tags</strong>: Quick access to all your post tags</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Product Categories</strong>: Navigate product categories efficiently</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Product Tags</strong>: Find product tags instantly</li>
<li><strong>Custom Categories</strong>: Works with any custom taxonomy in your theme or plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Live Search</strong>: Real-time category suggestions as you type</li>
<li><strong>Smart Autocomplete</strong>: Intelligent search with immediate results</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Display</strong>: Control how many results to show</li>
<li><strong>Responsive Design</strong>: Works perfectly on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong>: Extensible architecture with filters and actions</li>
<li><strong>User-Friendly Labels</strong>: Automatically uses proper labels for each category type</li>
<li><strong>Pagination Support</strong>: Handle large numbers of categories efficiently</li>
<li><strong>Accessibility Ready</strong>: Built with WCAG guidelines in mind</li>
</ul>
<h4>Perfect For</h4>
<ul>
<li>📚 Blog sites with extensive categorization</li>
<li>🛍️ WooCommerce stores with multiple product categories</li>
<li>🏷️ Sites using tags for content organization</li>
<li>🎯 Custom post types with specialized categories</li>
<li>🔍 Any WordPress site needing improved category navigation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Use Cases</h4>
<ol>
<li>
<p><strong>Content-Rich Blogs</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Help readers find relevant categories quickly</li>
<li>Make tag exploration intuitive</li>
<li>Improve content discovery</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>eCommerce Stores</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Quick product category navigation</li>
<li>Easy access to product tags</li>
<li>Better shopping experience</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Directory Websites</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Efficient browsing of business categories</li>
<li>Location-based category search</li>
<li>Custom classification systems</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Educational Platforms</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Course category exploration</li>
<li>Subject matter organization</li>
<li>Learning path discovery</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<h4>Implementation Examples</h4>
<p><strong>Basic Category Search</strong><br />
    [catex_search taxonomy=”category”]</p>
<p><strong>WooCommerce Product Categories</strong><br />
    [catex_search taxonomy=”product_cat”]</p>
<p><strong>Custom Category Search</strong><br />
    [catex_search taxonomy=”your_custom_taxonomy”]</p>
<h3>Usage Examples</h3>
<h4>Basic Implementation</h4>
<p>Add category search to any page or post:<br />
    [catex_search]</p>
<h4>WooCommerce Product Categories</h4>
<p>Add product category search:<br />
    [catex_search taxonomy=”product_cat”]</p>
<h4>Custom Number of Results</h4>
<p>Show 20 results per page:<br />
    [catex_search terms_per_page=”20″]</p>
<h4>Advanced Configuration</h4>
<p>Full configuration example:<br />
    [catex_search taxonomy=”custom_taxonomy” terms_per_page=”15″ show_terms=”always”]</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<h4>GitHub Repository</h4>
<p>Contribute to the development at: https://github.com/SirajumMahdi/taxonomy-search-explorer</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>For support questions, please use the WordPress.org plugin support forums.</p>


Category Search Explorer

A powerful and user-friendly category search tool for WordPress. Perfect for sites with extensive categories, tags, or custom taxonomies.

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<p>Search Everything improves WordPress default search functionality without modifying any of the template pages. You can configure it to search pages, excerpts, attachments, drafts, comments, tags and custom fields (metadata) and you can specify your own search highlight style. It also offers the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. It does not search password-protected content. Simply install, configure… and search.</p>
<p>Search Everything plugin now includes a writing helper called Research Everything that lets you search for your posts and link to them while writing. You can also enable Power Search to research posts from the wider web (for WP3.7 and above).</p>
<h4>Better WordPress search in three steps</h4>
<ul>
<li>Activate</li>
<li>Configure options</li>
<li>Search!</li>
</ul>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<p>Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Search Highlighting</li>
<li>Search Every Page</li>
<li>Search Every Tag</li>
<li>Search Custom Taxonomies ( new )</li>
<li>Search Every Category</li>
<li>Search non-password protected pages only</li>
<li>Search Every Comment</li>
<li>Search only approved comments</li>
<li>Search Every Draft</li>
<li>Search Every Excerpt</li>
<li>Search Every Attachment (post type, not the content itself – check FAQ)</li>
<li>Search Every Custom Field (metadata)</li>
<li>Exclude Posts from search</li>
<li>Exclude Categories from search</li>
</ul>
<h3>Update</h3>
<p>From Jan 24, 2014 Search Everything originaly developed by dancameron, sproutventure will be maintained and developed further by Zemanta.</p>
<h3>Terms of Service</h3>
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