Contesio

<p>Bring a REAL search engine into your WordPress website in 5 minutes, for free!</p>
<p>Smart Search enhances the WordPress search engine by querying Microsoft BING and its Search API.<br />
The search query is performed in the context of your website url, just like you would type the following search query on BING:</p>
<pre><code>site:http://www.yourblog.com find this and that in New York
</code></pre>
<h4>Brief</h4>
<p>URLs from the BING result set are converted by Smart Search to WordPress post IDs, thus the display process is the same your theme implements for regular searches.<br />
Search results come from <strong>Microsoft BING</strong>. This means <strong>semantics and relevance</strong> on board!!</p>
<p>You can also choose to cache the search engine’s results for a defined period of time, which basically means that your site will load a little bit faster if the same search query is used.</p>
<p>In order to use it, you must have a valid <a href="https://datamarket.azure.com/account/keys" title="Create Windows Account key" rel="nofollow ugc">Windows Account key</a> and you will need to activate at least the <a href="https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/8818F55E-2FE5-4CE3-A617-0B8BA8419F65" title="BING Search API | Web Results only plan" rel="nofollow ugc">free subscription here</a> or <a href="https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search" title="Activate your Bing Search API plan" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a></p>
<p>Easy, simple and fast!<br />
If this is your way and fits your needs, you could consider <a href="mailto:cristian@contesio.com" title="Get notified about Smart Search Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart Search Pro</a> and its extended features.</p>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> <em>your blog content must be indexed by BING in order to see the matching result set.</em> <a href="http://www.bing.com/toolbox/submit-site-url" title="Start indexing your site with BING" rel="nofollow ugc">Go here</a> to submit yuor site to BING.<br />
Feel free to leave a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/smart-search" title="Review this plugin" rel="ugc">review here</a>. To get in touch with me you can <a href="mailto:cristian@contesio.com" title="Contact Smart Search developer" rel="nofollow ugc">drop me an email</a>.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with built-in post types. Custom post types are supported as well</li>
<li>Highlight occurences in search results with custom background and text color</li>
<li>Auto detect misspelling and synonyms words</li>
<li>For post title and post excerpt, whether to display the WordPress or the BING one</li>
<li>Define how long to store search results for each query. This cuts down response time and saves transaction amount</li>
<li>Custom endpoint for empty search results</li>
<li>Use a custom domain as the search context, useful for testing purposes</li>
</ul>


Smart Search Engine

Smart Search replaces the native WordPress search engine by giving relevance to what matters. Results are displayed according to your current theme.

alek

<p>Archives widget that make your monthly/daily archives look like a calendar on the sidebar. If you have a lot of archives that takes a lot of space on your sidebar this widget is for you. Display your archives as a compact calendar, entirely customizable with CSS.</p>
<h4>**PLEASE FEEDBACK**</h4>
<p>I’m alone to test this plugin before release and I can’t test everything with particular configurations or on different versions of WordpPress, <strong>your feedback is precious.</strong></p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Theme Editor GUI (external tool)</li>
<li>Displays monthly archives as a compact year calendar</li>
<li>Displays daily archives as a compact month calendar</li>
<li>Show/hide monthly post count</li>
<li>8 themes included (with SCSS files)</li>
<li>2 Custom themes that keep your CSS style even after the plugin update</li>
<li>Different theme for each widget</li>
<li>Show widget with previous/current/next or last available month</li>
<li>Category select. Show post only from selected categories</li>
<li>Filter Archives page by categories you set in the widget</li>
<li>Custom post_type partial* support</li>
<li>Entirely customizable with CSS</li>
<li>.PO/.MO Localisation English/Français + OUTDATED: [Deutsch, Español, Portugues, Simplified Chinese, Serbo-Croatian]</li>
<li>jQuery animated with possibility to use your own JS code.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Not just a widget</strong>, if your theme does not support widgets, you can use this calendar by calling its <strong>function</strong>:</p>
<pre><code>archive_calendar();
</code></pre>
<p>you can also configure it:</p>
<pre><code>$defaults = array(
    'next_text' => '˃', //text showing on the next year button, can be empty or HTML to use with Font Awesome for example.
    'prev_text' => '˂', //just like next_text but for previous year button.
    'post_count' => true, //show the number of posts for each month
    'month_view' => true, //show months instead of years archives, false by default.
    'month_select' => 'default', // shows the last month available with at least one post. ('prev', 'next', 'current').
    'different_theme' => 0, // set 1 (true) if you want to set a different theme for this widget
    'theme' => null, // theme 'name' if 'different_theme' == true
    'categories' => null, // array() -> list of categories IDs to show. array(1,2,34)
    'post_type' => null // array() -> list of post types to show. array('post', 'movies')
);
archive_calendar($args);
</code></pre>
<p><strong>Custom taxonomies are not supported. If your custom post_type post has no common category with post it will not be shown in the archives</strong></p>
<h4>ADDON</h4>
<p><strong>Popover Addon for Archives Calendar Widget</strong><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/arcw-popover-addon/" rel="ugc">ARCW Popover Addon</a></p>
<h4>ARCW THEME EDITOR</h4>
<p><a href="http://arcw.alek.be/" rel="nofollow ugc">Create your own theme for the calendar</a></p>
<h4>Notes</h4>
<p>Please use the Support section to report issues. <strong>No support will be provided via email.</strong></p>


Archives Calendar Widget

Great!

Archives widget that makes your monthly/daily archives look like a calendar on the sidebar.

Smart Search Engine vs Archives Calendar Widget