<p>This plugin adds Spotlight ™ like live search with an ajax popup to<br />
the default search box. See the screenshot.</p>
<p>It can be used as a widget or directly as a PHP call in the theme.</p>
<p>The Live Search Plugin is heavily based on John Nunemaker’s<br />
<a href="http://www.wp-plugins-db.org/plugin/addicted-to-live-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Addicted To Live Search</a>.</p>
<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

Jon Christopher

Pavlo

<p><strong>Does not require</strong> <a href="https://searchwp.com/?utm_source=WordPress&utm_medium=Plugin+Readme+Requirement+Link&utm_campaign=Live+Ajax+Search&utm_content=SearchWP" rel="nofollow ugc">SearchWP</a>, but will utilize it if available. <a href="https://searchwp.com/extensions/live-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">Full documentation</a> is available at searchwp.com.</p>
<p>SearchWP Live Ajax Search enables AJAX powered live search for your search forms. Designed to be a developer’s best friend, SearchWP Live Ajax Search aims to stay out of your way but at the same time allowing you to customize everything about it. It’s set up to work with any WordPress theme and uses a template loader to display results. The template based approach allows you to seamlessly customize your SearchWP Live Search implementation without messing with dozens of cluttered options.</p>
<h4>Works best with SearchWP (but SearchWP is not necessary)</h4>
<p>SearchWP Live Ajax Search <em>is best utilized</em> in conjunction with <a href="https://searchwp.com/?utm_source=WordPress&utm_medium=Plugin+Readme+Best+Link&utm_campaign=Live+Ajax+Search&utm_content=SearchWP" rel="nofollow ugc">SearchWP</a>, but <strong>it is not required</strong>. If SearchWP is installed and activated, SearchWP Live Ajax Search can be customized to use any of your search engines <em>per search form</em>.</p>
<h4>Customization</h4>
<p>You can customize the implementation of SearchWP Live Ajax Search to a great degree, including any number of developer-defined configurations. The results are based on a template loader, allowing SearchWP Live Ajax Search to stay out of your way and letting you write the results template as you would any other WordPress theme file.</p>
<p><em>Everything</em> is powered by adding a single HTML5 data attribute (<code>data-swplive="true"</code>) to the input field of your search form. This happens automagically out of the box for any search forms generated from <code>get_search_form()</code>.</p>
<h4>Widget support</h4>
<p>SearchWP Live Ajax Search ships with a Widget allowing you to insert live search forms wherever you’d like.</p>


SearchWP Live Ajax Search

Works lovely with any search plugin you want to use. WP default, Relevanssi, or SearchWP. Very nice and makes your website search that much friendlier to use!

Beautiful! Works and fast! (default WP search, Relevanssi)


Great job to the developer! This is amazing. The customization options have been thought through incredibly well.


Amazing Work

Template powered live search for any WordPress theme. Does not require SearchWP, but will utilize it if available.

Live Search Popup vs SearchWP Live Ajax Search