WP Extended Search

About WP Extended Search

WP Extended Search is a powerful search plugin for WordPress that allows you to customize the search functionality. You can search in post meta, author names, categories, tags, or custom taxonomies, and control whether to search in the title, content, or excerpt. You can create multiple search settings and assign them to custom search forms using a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML. The plugin is also compatible with WooCommerce and has additional features such as excluding old content from search results and customizing the number of posts displayed on the search results page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is WP Extended Search?

WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful WordPress plugin that allows you to customize the default search functionality of your website. It enables searching in post meta, author names, categories, tags, or custom taxonomies via admin settings. You can also control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt.

What are the main features of WP Extended Search?

Key features include searching in selected meta keys, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and post author names. You can also include or exclude any public post type, control searching in title, content, or excerpt, and create unlimited search settings for custom forms. The plugin is compatible with WooCommerce, allowing searches in product SKU, attributes, variations, and custom fields.

How can I add search forms using WP Extended Search?

You can add search forms using a widget, shortcode, or PHP function. It also works with custom searchform.php files. The plugin offers options to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML for custom search forms.

Does WP Extended Search support multilingual sites?

Yes, WP Extended Search is translation ready and compatible with WPML. This allows it to work seamlessly with multilingual WordPress installations.

Can I customize the search results display?

Yes, you can customize the number of posts to display on the search results page. You can also customize the SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms and customize the order of search results.

Changelog

2.2 – 2024-11-28

Fixed issue with YITH badges management plugin.
Fixed issue with WP Query loop block.
Removed select2 CDN.
Fixed issues with WP 6.7
Other minor improvements.

2.1.2 – 2023-01-05

Fixed XSS vulnerability in search form.
Fixed missing text domains and MO file loading issue.
Added option to search in WC product variations. Ref https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-not-showing-single-product-variations/

2.1.1 – 2022-03-19

Fixed recommendations notice issue with cache plugins.
Minor fixes.

2.1 – 2022-03-13

Added new feature to limit attachments by mime type.
Fixed issue with add to cart link on search results page.
Other minor improvements.

2.0.3 – 2021-08-04

Fixed search issue in WC settings > Advanced tab
Fixed fatal error with WP 5.8 on new widget screen (Still not compatible with block-based widgets.)

2.0.2 – 2021-04-11

Fixed issue with WooCommerce pages.
Fixed issue with backend REST requests.
Added Select2 for admin pages.

2.0.1 – 2020-12-18

Fixed errors in dashboard for non-admin users.

2.0 – 2020-12-11

Upgrade Notice
2.0 went through code refactoring and major feature updates. Please make a complete site backup before upgrading.

Added new feature to add multiple search settings.
Added WooCommerce product search support.
Complete code refactoring.

1.3.1 – 2020-07-25

Fixed issue with ACF relationship post field admin search.
Fixed issue with Elementor admin search.
Added support for new query variable disable_wpes to disable WPES search.

1.3 – 2019-10-21

Fixed media search issue
Fixed conflict with search when adding new menu item in backend
Added setting link in plugin action links
Added feature to modify search results order
Added feature to match search query exactly or partially

1.2 – 2018-08-17

Fixed bbPress forum posts dissappear
Fixed issue with Ajax calls
Added feature to control search in post excerpt
Added compatibility with WPML
Added new filter wp_es_terms_relation_type
Updated wpes_posts_search filter. Now you can access $wp_query object as a second argument

1.1.2 – 2016-06-06

Fixed media library search is not working when plugin is active. Thanks @gazettco
Fixed escaping issue in SQL query. Thanks again @brurez
Dropped support of WP version older than 4.0

1.1.1 – 2016-01-26

Added feature to support Ajax calls
Fixed text domain issue
Fixed suppress_filters issue. Thanks @brurez

1.1 – 2015-06-21

Added feature to search in post author name
Added feature to customize number of posts per search results page
Added feature to control SQL query relation between search terms
Added new filters in settings wpes_meta_keys, wpes_tax and wpes_post_types

1.0.2 – 2015-01-11

Added support for post_type parameter in URL
Exclude old content from search results

1.0.1 – 2014-10-03

Fixed taxonomy table join issue
Added new filters wpes_meta_keys_query, wpes_tax_args, wpes_post_types_args, wpes_enabled, wpes_posts_search
Internationalized plugin.

1.0 – 2014-09-14

First Release