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WP Live Search is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Nick Haskins. With a rating of 4.7★ from 3 reviews.
WP Live Search is a WordPress app, with a 4.7 average rating from 3 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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WP Live Search is a WordPress app. It holds a 4.7★ average from 3 reviews on WordPress.
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How WP Live Search works
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WP Live Search (beta) is a search plugin for WordPress that returns results as the user types for what they are looking. It currently supports posts, pages, post types, including multiple post types, and design modes.
This is very much a working prototype, so please log any issues you find on the Github repo below.
https://github.com/bearded-avenger/wp-live-search
Here’s some documentation.
http://bearded-avenger.github.io/wp-live-search/
Add the shortcode [wp_live_search] to a page or something. There’s a few shortcode attributes that you can use, and are as follows:
type=””
Your choices are posts or pages. Defaults to posts. You can also pass type,type to search multiple post types. For example type=”recipes,books”
multi=””
By default this is turned off. Set this to true only if you’re using multiple post types above.
placeholder=””
The text displayed in the input. Defaults to Search....
number=””
Total search result to return. Default is 20
excerpt=”true”
Show the excerpt along with the title and featured image (if set)
compact=”true”