Blackbam

<p>This Plugin improves the search for users in the WordPress backend significantly. It empowers admins to search for the first name, last name and email address of users instead of only their nicknames/nicenames.</p>
<p>It is also possible to search for custom user meta fields now.</p>
<p>Translations: English, German, Swedish</p>
<p>Plugin Homepage: http://www.blackbam.at/blackbams-blog/2011/06/27/wordpress-improved-user-search-first-name-last-name-email-in-backend/<br />
Special characters like quotes are escaped, problems with the query may apper when trying to search for other non-alphanumeric characters.</p>
<h3>1.2.4</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added translations and il8n (Mikael Grön <a href="mailto:jag@mikaelgron.se" rel="nofollow ugc">jag@mikaelgron.se</a>)<br />
(en_US, en_UK,sv_SE)</li>
<li>Added german translation (de_DE)</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>Database compatibility improved.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>Re-allowed special characters in keys, but strings are still escaped for safe queries.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Filter and test custom meta fields. Remove unallowed characters.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.2.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added Case-insensitive matching.</li>
<li>Added Multisite support.</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.1.2</h3>
<p>Fix issue where attempting to activate the plugin would throw an “Invalid Header” error</p>
<h3>1.1.1</h3>
<p>Minor changes.</p>
<h3>1.1</h3>
<p>Added options page to include custom user meta fields in the search.</p>
<h3>1.0.1</h3>
<p>Little code improvements.</p>
<h4>1.0</h4>
<p>Initial release to the Plugins directory.</p>


Improved user search in backend

Improves the search for users in the backend significantly: Search for first name, last, email and more of users instead of only nicename.

lavacode

<p>Lava Ajax Live Search Provides Ajax live search for posts, custom post type in your WordPress site. It also works for BuddyPress, BBPress search.<br />
It provides a search shortcode to place on pages you want.</p>
<h4>FEATURES</h4>
<ul>
<li>BuddyPress search supported.</li>
<li>BBPress search supported.</li>
<li>Post search supported.</li>
<li>Custom post suppoted by developer mode.</li>
<li>Buddypress 2.9 compatible</li>
<li>Responsive design</li>
<li>Etc</li>
</ul>
<h4>LANGUAGES</h4>
<ul>
<li>English (default)<br />
We are happy to have volunteer to assist to translate in your own languages.<br />
Please email us at wp.lava.code@gmail.com , if you are interested. We will add it on next update.</li>
</ul>
<p>Intro page : http://lava-code.com/ajax-search<br />
Documentation : http://lava-code.com/ajax-search/documentation/<br />
Demo site : http://lava-code.com/ajax-search/demo/</p>
<h3>Languages</h3>
<p>It is currently (v0.1) available only English version. we are happy to have volunteer to assist to translate in your own languages.<br />
Please email us at wp.lava.code@gmail.com , if you are interested.<br />
Thank you in advance.</p>


Lava Ajax Search

Lava Ajax Live Search Provides Ajax live search for posts, custom post type in your WordPress site. It also works for BuddyPress, BBPress search

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