Sumit Singh

WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin.
With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt.
Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms. 
For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Search in selected meta keys</li>
<li>Search in category, tags or custom taxonomies</li>
<li>Search in the post author name</li>
<li>Include or exclude any public post type</li>
<li>Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all</li>
<li>Compatible with WooCommerce. Search in product SKU, Attributes, variations, and custom fields, etc.</li>
<li>Create unlimited search settings to use with custom search forms.</li>
<li>Add search forms using a widget, shortcode or PHP function. Also works with custom searchform.php</li>
<li>Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date)</li>
<li>Customize the number of posts to display on the search results page</li>
<li>Customize SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms</li>
<li>Customize order of search results</li>
<li>Control whether to match search query exactly or partially</li>
<li>Limit attachment results by mime type e.g. display only pdf files in search results.</li>
<li>Translation ready</li>
<li>Compatible with WPML</li>
</ul>
<h4>Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpes.secretsofgeeks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/5um17/wp-extended-search" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a></li>
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WP Extended Search


Absolutely love it when we look for a plugin, find one, it's simple to use and it works straight away.



Great work guys!


Works Perfectly

Great plugin!

Extend search functionality to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types, and all authors.

Temerity Studios

In today’s world, no WordPress Site Administrator should be without Combined Search. This uniquely formulated WordPress Plugin has been developed to allow Site Administrators like you to search for content that could not previously be searched for – like comments, category names, descriptions, custom taxonomies, and more.
You can configure Combined Search to your heart’s content, enabling it to search pages, attachments, excerpts, drafts, tags, comments, metadata and (most) everything in-between. Need to exclude certain pages and posts? Done.
Getting started is easy. Install via the WordPress dashboard or manually by downloading the plugin and adding it to your <code>wp-content/plugins/</code> folder. Visit the Plugins page in your WordPress administration area, and click “activate”. Configure it to your liking, and you’re ready to start searching.
PS: The only thing you can’t search is password-protected content, naturally. Combined Search can and will change the ability of the default WordPress Search; from highlighting to purely approved comments and so much more.
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Combined Search

Forked from the popular WordPress Search Everything plugin, Combined Search allows you to search all available content types on your web site.

WP Extended Search vs Combined Search