Mindshare Labs, Inc.

<p>A highly customizable AJAX-based WordPress search bar alternative with the ability to autocomplete <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceted_search" rel="nofollow ugc">faceted search queries</a>. Users can quickly and dynamically browse through your site’s taxonomies and post metadata to find exactly what they’re looking for, and results can be loaded beneath the search bar instantly.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Searches post title and body content</li>
<li>Can search by multiple keywords, and by full phrases</li>
<li>Highlights search terms in results</li>
<li>Option to send search queries as events to your Google Analytics account</li>
<li>Facets by post category</li>
<li>Can search in multiple categories (OR or AND search)</li>
<li>Category options are dynamically generated and autocompleted as you type</li>
<li>Attractive and lightweight interface based on jQuery, Backbone.js, and the VisualSearch.js library</li>
<li>Customizable results template using standard WordPress functions</li>
<li>Search through an unlimited number of user-specified taxonomies and meta fields (including data contained in Advanced Custom Fields).</li>
<li>Conduct radius searches against data stored in the ACF Map field (i.e. search for posts within x km of a user-specified location).</li>
</ul>


WP Ultimate Search

Powerful AJAX-based search alternative which supports faceting queries by taxonomies, terms, location, and post metadata.

Ascendoor

<p><strong><em>Ascendoor Metadata Manager</em></strong> plugin will display the metadata (metabox data or custom fields data) associated to the particular posts, terms, users and comments (including for custom post types and custom taxonomy terms).</p>
<p><strong><em>Ascendoor Metadata Manager</em></strong> plugin will list all the metadata with its meta key, meta value and action to <em>delete</em> or <em>edit</em> the meta key and value directly from the backend (edit page). The plugin also provides the settings option (Admin Dashboard > Settings > Ascendoor Metadata Manager) for you to disable/enable the metabox manager for each post types, taxonomies, users and comments section.</p>
<h4>Options Available For</h4>
<ul>
<li>Posts</li>
<li>Pages</li>
<li>Custom Post Types (the custom post types that are accessible/visible in backend i.e. with “show_ui = true” option)</li>
<li>Categories</li>
<li>Tags</li>
<li>Custom Taxonomies (the custom taxonomies that are accessible/visible in backend i.e. with “show_ui = true” option)</li>
<li>Users</li>
<li>Comments</li>
</ul>


Ascendoor Metadata Manager

A great plugin to display all metadata related to the posts, pages, custom post types, terms, custom taxonomy terms, users and comments that can be us …

WP Ultimate Search vs Ascendoor Metadata Manager