Faceted Search Widget for WordPress

3.7(3 reviews)10 installs

Listing audit: 46/100

Faceted Search Widget is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Federal Communications Commission. With a rating of 3.7★ from 3 reviews.

Faceted Search Widget is a WordPress app, with a 3.7 average rating from 3 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.

AppRanks verdict

Generated from marketplace data as of Sep 11, 2026

Faceted Search Widget is a WordPress app. It holds a 3.7★ average from 3 reviews on WordPress.

Pros

No standout positives in the measured data.

Cons

−Average rating below 4.0 (3.7★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
−Only 3 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings

How Faceted Search Widget works

Allows filtering of any search results of archive (tag, category, year, month, etc.) by any built in (category, tag) or custom taxonomies.

Places clickable list of taxonomies and terms in sidebar widget with count of posts for each. Allows users to query by multiple taxonomies.

Used for internal FCC project and open sourced July, 2011.

Standardized capabilities

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Ratings and reviews

3.7

3 reviews on WordPress

Reviews for this app aren't archived by AppRanks yet — read them on WordPress.

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About Faceted Search Widget on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Faceted Search Widget is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Faceted Search Widget against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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What is Faceted Search Widget?

Faceted Search Widget is a WordPress app by Federal Communications Commission. It holds a 3.7-star average from 3 reviews on WordPress.

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About Faceted Search Widget on the WordPress Plugin Directory

Faceted Search Widget is one of the apps AppRanks tracks on the WordPress Plugin Directory. We refresh public marketplace data — pricing, rating, review count, category position, featured-section memberships — within the per-marketplace freshness targets published on our methodology page, and we publish the snapshot here exactly as it appears on the source marketplace. There is no proprietary score on this page; everything you see is mirrored from the live listing at our last crawl. If you are evaluating Faceted Search Widget against alternatives, the independent listing audit scores it against the same rubric we apply to every app on the platform — listing completeness, rating health, review velocity, merchandising, and ranking consistency. The audit also surfaces a prioritized recommendation list, so a developer can see exactly which fixes would move the score most. For market context, browse the full WordPress app index to see how this app's metrics compare against others on the same marketplace.

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