jeremypreed

<p>Improved Search is a AJAX search interface you can place anywhere on your WordPress site and get instant search results as soon as you beginning typing. Improved Search delivers the most relevant results first. It also separates results by post type to help you quickly identify the post you are trying to find. Improved search allows you to customize the experience to fit the needs of your WordPress site. Improved Search comes with a shortcode as well as a widget for you to control its location.</p>


Improved Quick Search

Improved Search is a AJAX search interface you can place anywhere on your site and get instant search results as soon as you beginning typing.

Dana Ross

<p>Dave’s WordPress Live Search adds “live search” functionality to your WordPress site. As visitors type words into your WordPress site’s search box, the plugin continually queries WordPress, looking for search results that match what the user has typed so far.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://ajaxpatterns.org/Live_Search" rel="nofollow ugc">live search</a> technique means that most people will find the results they are looking for before they finish typing their query, and it saves them the step of having to click a submit button to get their search results.</p>
<p>This functionality requires Javascript, but the search box still works normally if Javascript is not available.</p>
<p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CGR2bJ1mLM<br />
<a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/daves-wordpress-live-search/assets/intro_video_transcript.txt" rel="nofollow ugc">transcript</a></p>
<p>This plugin is compatible with the <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xlanguage/" rel="ugc">xLanguage</a> and <a href="http://wpml.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a> plugins for internationalization (i18n) of search results.</p>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<p>See <a href="https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/daves-wordpress-live-search/trunk/filter_examples.php" rel="nofollow ugc">filter_examples.php</a> in<br />
the plugin files for examples of how to use these filters. Remember, these filters only affect the<br />
Dave’s WordPress Live Search display, not the normal WordPress search results or the posts themselves.</p>
<ol>
<li>dwls_alter_results</li>
<li>dwls_attachment_thumbnail</li>
<li>dwls_post_title</li>
<li>dwls_the_excerpt</li>
<li>dwls_post_date</li>
<li>dwls_author_name</li>
<li>dwls_alter_result_template</li>
<li>dwls_post_custom</li>
<li>dwls_query_fields</li>
</ol>
<h3>Wish List</h3>
<p>Features I want to implement in future releases:</p>
<ol>
<li>“No results found” message (optional)</li>
</ol>


Dave's WordPress Live Search

At first, this seems like a good plugin and it is. I tried to report a bug a couple of months ago and, despite the fact the plugin says it's compatible with the latest version of WordPress, there seems to be bugs that are not addressed. At this point, I had to hack the plugin and edit source code to make it work.

Unmaintained plugin

You do a great job

Adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. Uses the built-in search and jQuery.

Improved Quick Search vs Dave's WordPress Live Search