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


Searchy

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

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<p>The Tag Groups plugin allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more. You can customize your term displays with a huge number of options and use them in posts, pages, blocks, or shortcodes.</p>
<h3>All the Features in Tag Groups</h3>
<p>The Free version of the Tag Groups plugin comes with the following features. All of these features are available as both shortcodes and also Gutenberg blocks.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tag List:</strong> Tags appear in columns, sorted into groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tag-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Tabbed Tag Cloud:</strong> A tag cloud where tags are sorted into groups that appear in tabs. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tabbed-tag-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Accordion Tag Cloud:</strong> A tag cloud where tags are sorted into vertically stacked accordion groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/accordion-tab-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Alphabetical Tag Cloud:</strong> Tags are sorted alphabetically by first letter under tabs. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/alphabetical-tabs/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Alphabetical Tag Index:</strong> Tag appear in columns, sorted alphabetically by first letter. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/alphabetical-index/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Post List:</strong> Display posts with a specific tag or in a particular tag group. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-list/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>The Pro version of the Tag Groups plugin also has these extra features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Tag Cloud:</strong> This is an advanced version of a traditional Tag Cloud, with many customization options. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Table Tag Cloud:</strong> This feature organizes tags in a table, with groups as headers. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/table-tag-cloud/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Shuffle Box:</strong> This is a tag cloud that allows you to filter the tags by their names or by their tag groups. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/shuffle-box/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Tag Cloud Search</strong>: Add a search box to any of our static tag displays: Cloud, Tabs, Accordion, or Table. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/tag-cloud-search/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Toggle Post Filter</strong>: This allows users to dynamically search for posts that have tags they choose. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-filter-tags-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Post Filter</strong>: This aallows users to dynamically search for posts via a dropdown menu showing tags. <a href="https://demo.taxopress.com/post-filter-dropdown-menu/" rel="nofollow ugc">View demos</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tag Groups Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Tag Groups Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of Tag Groups has extra features and expert support. <a href="https://taxopress.com/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to organize your terms with the Tag Groups Pro plugin now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Why Organize Terms Into Groups?</h3>
<p>Most WordPress sites mix up terms into one big messy group. In most cases, terms should actually be separated by topics: places, people, features, years and more.</p>
<p>Your term however, will become much more useful if you organize them in groups. Imagine a tag cloud where all places appear in a “Places” group, all names under “Names” and all years under “Years”. The Tag Groups plugin lets you do exactly that.</p>
<p>The plugin gives you many term displays. You can also customize them, append or prepend something to each tag. You can add separators, choose the link target, set the smallest and the largest font size, display the post count and much more.</p>
<h3>Does Tag Groups Only Work With Tags?</h3>
<p>No. Tag Groups works also great with most other (flat) taxonomies, such as WooCommerce product tags.</p>
<p>The plugin does not support hierarchical taxonomies like categories.</p>
<h3>Does Tag Groups Work with Multilingual Websites?</h3>
<p>Yes, this plugin is officially compatible with <strong>WPML</strong>, the WordPress Multilingual plugin. This means you can use a different tag group name for each language.</p>
<h3>Tag Groups Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Tag Groups Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of TaxoPress. The Pro version of TaxoPress has extra features and expert support. <a href="https://taxopress.com/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to organize, optimize and showcase your content with TaxoPress now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>The TaxoPress and Tag Groups plugins</h3>
<p>TaxoPress is developed by the same team that support the popular <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-tags/" rel="ugc">TaxoPress plugin</a>. Together Tag Groups and TaxoPress are an excellent solution for organizing and displaying your site’s content.</p>
<h3>Tag Groups Bug Reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for Tag Groups are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/taxopress/tag-groups" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, but a place to report bugs in the plugn that can be replicated outside of a single site.</p>
<h3>Follow the TaxoPress team</h3>
<p>Follow TaxoPress on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@taxopress" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube</a>.</p>


Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms

I'm not easily impressed by a plugin - but Tag Cloud has me more than impressed - I'm a fan! Not just the great features, but also the documentation is superb.

Excellent, many features and options

Tag Groups allows you to organize your WordPress taxonomy terms and show them in clouds, tabs, accordions, tables, lists and much more.

Searchy vs Tag Groups is the Advanced Way to Display Your Taxonomy Terms