This plugin adds Spotlight ™ like live search with an ajax popup to 
the default search box. See the screenshot.
It can be used as a widget or directly as a PHP call in the theme.
The Live Search Plugin is heavily based on John Nunemaker’s 
<a href="http://www.wp-plugins-db.org/plugin/addicted-to-live-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Addicted To Live Search</a>.
<h4>Changelog</h4>
<ul>
<li>1.4.7 Fix by Tony for “With mouseover on result in IE, there is no background image or color”.</li>
<li>1.4.6 Added livesearchpopup_resultsbox(width) to put the popup below a search box of your choice, e.g. from a theme.</li>
<li>1.4.5 Do not initialize if no livesearchpopup_results is found. In contrast to the original live search this plugin does not make sense without the popup anyway. This fixes a JavaScript bug in IE7.</li>
<li>1.4.4 Use wpurl instead of siteurl to allow installations of WordPress at different addresses (thanks to Draco)</li>
<li>1.4.3 Use <?php instead of <? in live-search-popup.php</li>
<li>1.4.2 Force update script to update the plugin.</li>
<li>1.4.1 Switched to the_post instead of the deprecated wp_start().</li>
<li>1.4 Finally permalinks work together with this plugin. In addition a “Show all” links was added at the bottom for the case that there are more posts than shown in the popup (thanks to Marco Luthe).</li>
<li>1.3.4 Moved the placeholder and autocomplete attributes of the search box to JavaScript as they are not XHTML valid (thanks to Marco Luthe)</li>
<li>1.3.3 Added some print commands in front of get_bloginfos (thanks to upekshapriya who noticed that)</li>
<li>1.3.2 Force update script to update the plugin.</li>
<li>1.3.1 Relative paths in css to allow installation which are not at the domain root.</li>
<li>1.3 Fixed behaviour for change and blur events of the search box. This fixes the “click-through” bug.</li>
<li>1.2.1 Updated to reflect that it works with 2.3 as well.</li>
<li>1.2 Bugfixes</li>
<li>1.1 Bugfixes</li>
<li>1.0 First release</li>
</ul>

Live Search Popup

Spotlight (tm) like live search with an ajax popup

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Search in Place features:
» Performs real time search as you enter search criteria 
» Groups search results by post type (post, page) 
» Allows to limit the number of elements in the dynamic search results 
» Offers a different navigation option on the website 
» Use a friendly AJAX technology for searching 
» Suggests search terms based on the information typed by the user.
Search in Place improves blog search by displaying query results in real time. Search in place displays a list with results dynamically as you enter the search criteria.
Search in Place groups search results by their type, labeling them as post, page or the post type entered, and highlights the searched terms in search page and resulting pages. Search in Place advanced allows to search in metadata and author display name too.
More about the Main Features:
<ul>
<li>Performs real time search as you enter search criteria;</li>
<li>Use a friendly AJAX technology for searching;</li>
<li>Groups search results by post type (post, page);</li>
<li>Allows to limit the number of elements in the dynamic search results;</li>
<li>Allows to customize the box colors;</li>
<li>Allows highlight the criteria for searching in results;</li>
<li>Offers a different navigation option on the website.</li>
</ul>
The plugin converts the website’s search boxes into search in places. Furthermore, the plugin allows to insert additional search boxes using the shortcode:
<pre><code> [search-in-place-form]
</code></pre>
For searching in the current page only, insert the shortcode with the in_current_page attribute:
<pre><code> [search-in-place-form in_current_page="1"]
</code></pre>
For inserting the shortcode in the website’s pages it is possible to use the specific integrations with the editors: Gutenberg, Elementor, or the widget for Page Builder by SiteOrigin. For the other editors, insert the shortcode.
Frequently, while performing a search in a blog with terms we think are present in the blog’s pages and posts, after various search attempts and a slow/tedious process of page reloads, we feel frustration because we haven’t found the page/post being searched for. With Search in Place the search process is easier and seamless. The Search in Place makes the post search in real time, allowing the correction of the search criteria without reloading the website (The basic version of “Search in Place” makes the search in posts and pages).
The plugin transforms all search boxes in the website into search in place boxes, furthermore, the plugin includes a shortcode allowing to insert additional “search boxes”, or “search in current page boxes”.
Premium Features:
<ul>
<li>Allows the searching in metadata, taxonomies, and author display name associated to the post, page or custom post type;</li>
<li>Allows to define additional post_types to be considered for searching;</li>
<li>Includes the integration with popular plugins like: WooCommerce, WP e-Commerce, Jigoshop, Ready! Ecommerce Shopping Cart and more;</li>
<li>Include labels in the search results page;</li>
</ul>
The plugin displays search results in a popup window by default. However, it is possible to show them in a div tag in the page content:
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/X9MOjSZO14M?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
Demo of Premium Version of Plugin
<a href="https://demos.dwbooster.com/search-in-place/wp-login.php" title="Click to access the Administration Area demo" rel="nofollow ugc">https://demos.dwbooster.com/search-in-place/wp-login.php</a>
<a href="https://demos.dwbooster.com/search-in-place/" title="Click to access the Public Page" rel="nofollow ugc">https://demos.dwbooster.com/search-in-place/</a>
The usual WordPress behavior is searching in the posts, but the post’s search may not be sufficient if you are using plugins that includes custom post_types. The WordPress born as a blog manager, but this great platform has been evolved through its plugins until allow be used as a content management system, an eCommerce (WooCommerce, WP e-Commerce, etc.) or a social network, so the search feature require evolve too and allow searching by products, users and any custom post_types. Search in Place came to fill this empty in WordPress, Search in Place allow to search in custom post_types, taxonomies associated to the post_types, its metadata, or the authord display name.But Search in Place don’t stop there, with Search in Place is possible to format the results, set labels to identify the search results, and highlight the terms in the resulting pages.
If you want more information about this plugin or another one don’t doubt to visit my website:
<a href="https://searchinplace.dwbooster.com" title="CodePeople WordPress Repository" rel="nofollow ugc">https://searchinplace.dwbooster.com</a>

Search in Place


I'm not one for writing reviews. But Search In Place deserves one. The nature of part of my site is the need for the users to easily find related items and articles. SiP does this smoothly.



SiP provides relevant search results based on your settings (I prioritise exact match over partial) and even on the free version, there are ways to customise and adapt it. 



When I've needed help, they've answered my questions here pretty quickly, which is appreciated.



The only thing I would say is, if you store your users' searches with a different plugin (I do) then you'll find a bunch of partially-typed results. This is not SiP's fault, but how WP search is - and if your user has found what they want before they finish typing, then they're not going to continue typing!



Thanks SiP.


Just What Was Needed


Since discovering this plugin and its user-friendly search-on-page feature, I don't know how I lived without it. It is absolutely essential for any structured long-form content.



Many thanks to the developer for their support to get Arabic working.


Search on page with Arabic support

The plugin offers much better results than the internal WordPress solution.

Great Plugin

Search in Place improves blog search by displaying query results in real time. It displays the results dynamically as you enter the search criteria.

Live Search Popup vs Search in Place