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The Purpose: allowing your users to search differently
Ajaxed search engines are all over the place ? literally. 
Whenever a large amount of items is available, be it houses for rent 
or computer spare parts, providing your users with a fast, structured, faceted search 
can be one thousand times more efficient, rather than letting your visitors sink into hundreds of web pages, 
hoping they?ll find what they need ? almost by chance. 
This tool does not replace or try to extend the build in textual search feature of WordPress; 
it aims to provide a quick bootstrap to an ajaxed search engine, demonstrating how easy it can be to turn 
your website into a powerful search tool, without installing a huge and bloated code.
It is easy to hack and to extend at your will. 
You can read here the original article about why <a href="http://www.dopewp.com/searchy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Searchy</a> was built.
<h3>Main Features</h3>
Let your users search combining different criterias: Filter by name, category, tag, or custom field (=1). 
Sort results by date, name or custom field (numeric)
<h3>Typical usage</h3>
Searchy is a customizable search engine composed of two elements: the search filters – typically a filters column, and the search results.
Use the searchy_filter shortcode or the built-in widget to show the filters column. 
Place the searchy_results shortcode in a WordPress page to show the sort bar and the search results. 
Of course those go in square brackets in a chosen Page. 
You can place them one after the other, having searchy_filter and searchy_results close, 
Or get fancy building your custom layout, placing some do_shortcode calls wherever you want.

Searchy

An AJAX Search Engine allowing different criterias for sorting and filtering your posts. Use via simple shortcodes and few settings.

broadstreet

This is the easiest way to place ads in your WordPress site. Just drag a widget 
to the sidebar, upload, an ad, and save.
Watch a short video demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU</a>
Note: If you have an adblocker installed, it will prevent this widget (and parts of WordPress) from working properly.
<ul>
<li>Extremely intuitive for beginners</li>
<li>No clunky ad management interface</li>
<li>Easily place image banner ads</li>
<li>Easily place Google ad tags and other ad code</li>
</ul>
If you like Ad Widget and you’re selling ads, you might like our new <a href="http://broadstreetads.com/ad-platform/ad-formats/" rel="nofollow ugc">ad formats for publishers 
and salespeople</a>.
You will not find an easier way to run ads on your website!
<h3>Demo</h3>
Watch a short video demo: <a href="https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU" rel="nofollow ugc">https://youtu.be/E9CC3ZWOaLU</a>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
The Ad Widget is a very simple plugin. If you are having trouble 
loading ads on your site, please make sure that:
<ul>
<li>You do not have an ad blocker installed (you would be amazed how often this happens). Disable it and refresh the page a few times to see if the ad appears.</li>
<li>You don’t have CSS in your theme which is hiding images (rare, but it happens)</li>
</ul>
If you have any other trouble, email kenny@broadstreetads.com – try to avoid 
the WordPress support forums because they’re awful.

Ad Widget for WordPress

Easily upload ad images and ad code to your sidebar. For those that don't need or want a complicated ad management system.

Searchy vs Ad Widget for WordPress