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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.

WPKube

The plugin renders a tag cloud using a professionally designed tag image as a background.
The plugin’s tag cloud is completely responsive and is correctly rendered in all browsers.
The primary application of this feature is through the “Cool Tag Cloud” widget, but you can also use the shortcode [cool_tag_cloud] to display the tag cloud anywhere where shortcodes are supported.
Here is the list of parameters that can be used with the shortcode, each with its own set of potential values (which are separated by the | symbol):
<ul>
<li><code>style="default|silver|green|red|blue|brown|purple|cyan|lime|black"</code></li>
<li><code>font_family="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"</code></li>
<li><code>smallest="10"</code></li>
<li><code>largest="10"</code></li>
<li><code>align="left|right"</code></li>
<li><code>font_weight="normal|bold"</code></li>
<li><code>text_transform="none|uppercase|lowercase|capitalize"</code></li>
<li><code>number="20"</code></li>
<li><code>order_by="name|count"</code></li>
<li><code>order="ASC|DESC|RAND"</code></li>
<li><code>taxonomy="post_tag"</code></li>
<li><code>nofollow="yes|no"</code></li>
<li><code>animation="yes|no"</code></li>
<li><code>on_single_display="global|local"</code></li>
<li><code>on_archive_display="all|children|siblings|descendants"</code></li>
<li><code>exclude="1,2,3"</code></li>
<li><code>include="1,2,3"</code></li>
</ul>
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Special thanks to <a href="http://www.premiumpixels.com/freebies/tagtastic-tag-cloud-psd/" rel="nofollow ugc">Orman Clark</a> for the tag image and to <a href="http://dimox.name/beautiful-tags-markup/" rel="nofollow ugc">Dimox</a> for the CSS code.
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Cool Tag Cloud

This came as a blessing when I had written some custom code to show a custom Taxonomy cloud on sidebar. The options to customize are so cool, and I love the option to either show the taxonomy related to a post on a Single post page or all tags, that makes it so versatile. Thanks so much to the author.

Searchy vs Cool Tag Cloud