gnaka08

<p>The plugin gives search boxes on the blog additional functionalities for operators among search words, such as Google’s. The other supported operators than the standard ‘and’ search are OR, -(exclude), *(any string) and parenthesis.</p>
<p>The plugin contains <a href="https://github.com/yonaka/SearchWordsSQL" rel="nofollow ugc">SearchWordsSQL</a> and <a href="http://genericons.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Genericons</a> libraries. These are subject to the respective licenses. If you want to redistribute this plugin with Genericons, you may have to comply with GPLv2 (not lesser).</p>
<h3>Search Operators</h3>
<ul>
<li>Specify words separated by space(s) to search posts containing all the words.</li>
<li>Quote a string containing space(s) by double quotes to search posts which contain phrase(s) consisted of those words only in the order.</li>
<li>Insert an asterisk (*) in a word without any space to search posts which contain the word(s) regardless of what the part of the asterisk is.</li>
<li>Prepend a minus sign (-) without any space to a word to search posts which do not contain the word(s).</li>
<li>Specify two words separated by ” OR ” in upper case to search posts which contain either of words or both. This takes precedence over words separated by space(s) only.</li>
<li>You can combine the above expression. Use a pair of parenthesis to group expressions if needed.</li>
</ul>
<p>It searches in the bodies and titles of posts in a case-insensitive manner.</p>


Compound Searcher

Lets search boxes on your blog support search operators like Google's.

Sumit Singh

<p>WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin.</p>
<p>With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt.</p>
<p>Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms.<br />
For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search in selected meta keys</li>
<li>Search in category, tags or custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Search in the post author name</li>
<li>Include or exclude any public post type</li>
<li>Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce. Search in product SKU, Attributes, variations, and custom fields, etc.</li>
<li>Create unlimited search settings to use with custom search forms.</li>
<li>Add search forms using a widget, shortcode or PHP function. Also works with custom searchform.php</li>
<li>Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date)</li>
<li>Customize the number of posts to display on the search results page</li>
<li>Customize SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms</li>
<li>Customize order of search results</li>
<li>Control whether to match search query exactly or partially</li>
<li>Limit attachment results by mime type e.g. display only pdf files in search results.</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpes.secretsofgeeks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/5um17/wp-extended-search" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
</ul>


WP Extended Search


Absolutely love it when we look for a plugin, find one, it's simple to use and it works straight away.



Great work guys!


Works Perfectly

Great plugin!

Extend search functionality to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types, and all authors.

Compound Searcher vs WP Extended Search