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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.

Code Amp

Ross Morsali

Search & Filter is a simple search and filtering plugin for WordPress – it is an advancement of the WordPress search box.
You can search by Category, Tag, Custom Taxonomy, Post Type, Post Date or any combination of these easily to really refine your searches – remove the search box and use it as a filtering system for your posts and pages. Fields can be displayed as dropdowns, checkboxes, radio buttons or multi selects.
Links: <a href="https://free.searchandfilter.com/?utm_campaign=wordpress.org&utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=docslink" rel="nofollow ugc">Search & Filter Documentation</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/searchandfilter/" rel="nofollow ugc">Follow us on Twitter</a>
<h3>Get more features with Search & Filter Pro</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://demo.searchandfilter.com/?utm_campaign=wordpress.org&utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=demolink" rel="nofollow ugc">View live demo >></a></li>
<li>Search Custom Fields, Post Meta, Authors, Post Types, Post Dates, Taxonomies, Tags, Categories</li>
<li>Use AJAX to display results – no more page reloading!</li>
<li>Search Post Meta/Custom Fields with checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns, multiselects or comboboxes</li>
<li>jQuery range slider, date pickers and auto-complete comboboxes for selects and multiselects</li>
<li>Order Results Field – users can order results by meta value, Post ID, author, title, name, date, date modified, parent ID, random, comment count and menu order</li>
<li>Drag & Drop editor</li>
<li>Use custom templates</li>
<li>Create as many fields and different search forms as you like</li>
<li>Use for blogs, reviews sites, news sites, property sites and more.</li>
<li>Use for your online shop – tested and compatible with WooCommerce, WP eCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads</li>
<li>Place anywhere in your themes and posts using shortcodes and widgets</li>
<li>Works with WPML</li>
<li>Works with Advanced Custom Fields</li>
<li>Extremely easy to use admin UI, fully integrated with WP 3.8+</li>
<li>Dedicated Support</li>
<li><a href="https://searchandfilter.com/?utm_campaign=wordpress.org&utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=textlink" rel="nofollow ugc">More info >></a></li>
</ul>

Search & Filter

Great Plugin

I use the pro version of this plugin and it is truly one of the best, most useful plugins out there. There's no bloat. It doesn't load you down with a bunch of crappy templates or anything like that. It just focuses on providing you all the options you could need for searching and filtering content and leaves the rest to you. I am always pleasantly surprised that when I want to do some weird thing with filtering I find that this plugin already has the ability to do it. 

Search Filter PRO


Excellent plugin with very good ACF support in its pro version but also a very useful Elementor integration. The support is very responsive and very helpful!Great job !


Excellent plugin with excellent support

I would love to say this plugin is awesome. I really would. It has some great functionality out of the box. I need to drop it a star and a half because it overlooks a few fundamental priorities that would be easy to fix but they don's seem to want to bother with. First, their is no way to alter the html template of the outputted form, or give you a way to segment it into sections. This creates a huge drag trying to style a single flowing list of elements <ul><li></li></ul>. This would be easy to solve and there are several requests for styling help. Second, the pro support is not very good. I was not able to find a way to contact them on my account page so came and left a review instead.

Pretty Good functionality but styling help is non-existant

Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types

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