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About Search Everything
Search Everything is a plugin for WordPress that improves the default search functionality on your website. It allows you to configure what content is included in the search and offers options such as search highlighting and the ability to exclude specific pages and posts. It also includes a writing helper called Research Everything that allows you to search for and link to your own posts while writing.Screenshots



Frequently asked questions
What does the Search Everything plugin do?
Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search by allowing you to search every page, tag, custom taxonomy, category, comment, draft, excerpt, attachment, and custom field. It also offers search highlighting and the ability to exclude specific posts and categories.
What are the three steps to better WordPress search?
The three steps to better WordPress search are: 1) Activate the Search Everything plugin, 2) Configure the plugin options, and 3) Start searching!
What is Research Everything?
Research Everything is a writing helper included in the Search Everything plugin. It allows you to search for your own posts and link to them while writing.
What is Power Search?
Power Search is a feature available for WordPress 3.7 and above. It allows you to research posts from the wider web while writing.
Who maintains and develops the Search Everything plugin?
As of January 24, 2014, the Search Everything plugin is maintained and developed by Zemanta. It was originally developed by dancameron and sproutventure.
Changelog
8.1.9
- Fixed a search issue that caused all results to be returned regardless of the options.
8.1.8
- Fixed a migration/update issue
8.1.7
- Compatibility with WordPress 4.7
- Security update: resolve SQL injection vunerability related to WP 4.7
8.1.6
- Security update: filtering out empty search strings that could enable sql injections
8.1.5
- Compatibility with PHP 7
- Bypassing highlighting in dashboard searches
8.1.4
- Removed unnecessary styles on frontend
- Fixed php notice showing up sometimes
- Czech language added
8.1.3
- Support for multitag search
8.1.2
- CSS bugfix
8.1.1
- Security update (CSRF vunerability fix)
- Added form validation to Options page
8.1
- Fixed link search bug
- Fixed bug of limiting number of results in Research Everything
- Improved code robustness
- Fixed translation system
- Fixed upgrade bug
- Renamed methods with too generic names
- Fixed admin notices – they’re only visible to admins now
8.0
- Added research widget on compose screen
- Reorganized settings
- Security updates
7.0.4
- Urgent bugfix – changed migration script
7.0.3
- Fixed vulnerability issue in se_search_default and started escaping terms
- Refactored code, extracted html from PHP code
- Added support for ajax call
7.0.2
- Added config file with installation and migration functions
- Refactored code, removed Yes options
- Replaced deprecated functions