Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin vs Events Search & Filter Bar for The Events Calendar

Ivory Search is a simple to use advanced WordPress search plugin. It enhances the default WordPress search and also allows you to create new custom search forms. With Ivory Search, you can create an unlimited number of search forms and configure each search form individually to customize WordPress search and perform different types of searches on site content. Display the custom search forms on site header, footer, sidebar or widget area, navigation or menu, on pages, posts, custom post types or anywhere on the site using its shortcodes. Note: The styling of the search form highly depends on how your theme styles it. If your theme does not style search form correctly then to style it get free support from Ivory Search Support. Have any doubt or question? Feel free to ask it using Contact Form. Links Website Documentation Support Contact Us Key Features Perform faster search with inverted index-based search engine. Index and search shortcode contents. Search WooCommerce products. Search images, files and attachments. Customize search form using customizer. Search using AJAX search. Track searches in search analytics. Index and search TablePress shortcode contents. Create unlimited number of search forms. Configure each search forms separately. Configure search form to search specific content. Exclude specific content from search results. Display Search Forms anywhere on your site. Supports multilingual search. Multilingual Search supported by Weglot Integrates with popular plugins such as WooCommerce, Weglot, Polylang, bbPress, WPML etc. AJAX Search or Live Search Convert any search form including default search form to AJAX search form. Search posts, pages, WooCommerce products, images, files or any custom post type using AJAX search. Exclude any specific content from AJAX search. Search Form Customizer Use customizer to change search form colors and its text. Choose any search form style from various search forms. Search Specific Content Search specific post types such as post, page, product, attachment, forum etc. Search in post title. Search in post content. Search in post excerpt. Search posts having specific category or taxonomy terms. Search in category or taxonomy terms title. Search in category or taxonomy terms description. Search posts having specific custom fields or metadata. Search WooCommerce products SKU. [Premium] Search WooCommerce products variation. [Premium] Search posts created by specific authors. [Premium] Search in author Display name and display the posts created by that author. Search posts having specific statuses. [Premium] Search posts having specific number of comments. [Premium] Search in approved comments content. Search posts created in specific date. Search only password protected posts. Search only posts without passwords. Search all posts with and without passwords. Search specific files, MIME type or media attachments such as images, audio, videos, PDF, documents etc. [Premium] Search in the title, caption and description of images, attachments and media. Search in multiple languages as the plugin supports multilingual plugins such as Polylang, WPML etc. Exclude Specific Content From Search Exclude specific post types from search. Exclude specific posts, pages, WooCommerce Products, Media Attachments, forums or any custom post type from search. Do not search in the post title. Configure to not search in post content. Configure to not search in post excerpt. Exclude posts from search having specific category or taxonomy terms. Exclude posts from search having specific custom fields or metadata. [Premium] Exclude ‘out of stock’ WooCommerce products from search. [Premium] Exclude posts from search created by specific authors. [Premium] Exclude posts from search having specific statuses. [Premium] Exclude sticky posts from search. Exclude posts from search having specific number of comments. Exclude posts from search created before or after specific dates. Exclude password protected posts from search. Exclude posts from search without passwords. Exclude images, audios, videos, PDF, documents, attachments, files, media, file type or MIME type from search. [Premium] Control and Extend Search Display search form in navigation menu and configure its functionality. Configure the number of posts to display in search results. Highlight search terms on the search results page. Order posts in ascending or descending order of date, relevance, id, author, title, type, name, comment count, menu order or entirely random. [Premium] Display or hide sticky posts at the top of the search results page. Display an error page or list all posts for empty search queries. Display search forms only to site administrators while testing, before going live. Disable an individual search form or disable searching site wide. Configure stop words which are excluded from search. Option to add word synonyms to provide more relevant search results. Display post_type argument in the search query URL and restrict search to it. Search posts having all or any of the selected category or taxonomy terms. Display content having any or all the searched terms. Fuzzy Matching – Search posts that include the whole search term or search words in the posts that begins or ends with the search term. Keyword Stemming – Also searches base word of searched keyword. [Premium] Note: some of the features are Premium marked as [Premium]. To have access to those features you will need Ivory Search Premium. You can get Ivory Search Premium here! We enhanced and re-wrote old Add Search To Menu plugin from the ground up and Add Search To Menu has renamed to Ivory Search. Help Need Help? Get Ivory Search support. Feedback Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact us using this Contact form.

Give your visitors a real way to find events instead of scrolling a long event calendar. Events Search & Filter Bar is a free event search plugin and events filter bar for The Events Calendar. Visitors type an event name, narrow it to a date range, and see matching events on the same page — with a shareable URL for every filtered view. Front-end event search and filtering is normally a paid feature in the events calendar ecosystem. This event calendar addon gives you a real, working one for free. 👉 View the live demo An events calendar addon, not another event calendar plugin This plugin does not replace your WordPress event calendar — it makes the one you already have findable. If you run The Events Calendar to manage events, conferences, webinars, workshops, classes, gigs or local meetups, and your events page has grown into a long list, this adds the search and filtering layer that list is missing. It works on any WordPress site running The Events Calendar (free or Pro), with any theme, and with the block editor, Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks and WPBakery — because the bar is placed with a simple shortcode. What you get, free Event search that runs on the server. Keyword search matches the event title, paginated and bounded — your event catalogue is never dumped into the browser. Type-ahead event suggestions. Instant results as visitors type, in a keyboard-driven dropdown — and, when the bar has a results list to hand them to, a “See all results” row that takes them there. A date filter with presets. Today, Tomorrow, This weekend, This week, Next week, This month, Next month — or a custom date range. Multi-day and recurring events are matched correctly, in your site’s timezone. Filtered event lists on the same page. Place the results region where you want it and the bar drives it — event count, active-filter chips, Load more, and helpful empty states that offer a way out (“Clear search”, “Search past events too”, “Browse past events”). Events grid or events list, the visitor’s choice. Pick the default; visitors can flip between the two from the results toolbar, and re-sort — soonest first, latest first, or by title. Event cards you control. Show or hide the image, title, date, venue and cost, set the number of columns and the card scale, and choose how the event date reads. Shareable, bookmarkable URLs. Every search, date range, sort and page is in the address bar, so a filtered event view can be linked, shared and crawled — and the browser’s back and forward buttons behave. Put your search bar on the default events page. On The Events Calendar’s List view, swap out its search box, its List/Month/Day links and its date navigation, and put your bar there instead. It keeps rendering its own event results — your search and date filter drive them. Add a heading to the events page. The events archive is not a normal WordPress page, so there is nowhere obvious to title it. Type one line and it appears above the bar; leave it blank and nothing changes. Make it match your site. Accent, text and background colours (six ready-made palettes, including two dark ones), two bar frames, six search-button treatments, a control-size scale and a corner-radius slider. A theme-proof control reset keeps the bar clean on themes that restyle every input. Accessible by design. A proper combobox/listbox keyboard pattern, focus that never leaves the input while arrowing through suggestions, polite screen-reader announcements — and a plain form fallback that still searches with JavaScript switched off. Light on your site. Event queries are cached, public requests are rate-limited, and the CSS and JS load only on pages that actually render a bar. Add the event search bar with a shortcode Drop this on any page, post or widget area: [events-calendar-search] Out of the box that’s an event search box with type-ahead suggestions. Turn on the date filter and a results region in the settings panel, and the panel writes the shortcodes for you — including the second tag that marks where the filtered event list appears: [events-calendar-search facets="search,date" results-mode="inline" target="events"] [events-calendar-search-results target="events"] You never have to type either by hand. Design the bar in the panel, then copy both tags with one click. Shortcode attributes Every attribute below is optional. Leave one out and it inherits your saved setting, so a bare [events-calendar-search] follows the settings panel and you only add an attribute where one placement should differ. [events-calendar-search] — the search bar What the bar contains and does facets — which filters the bar shows. search, date, or search,date. Category, tag, venue, organizer and location filters are Pro. search-fields — which field the keyword matches. title. Description, venue name and organizer name are Pro. typeahead — the suggestions dropdown. dropdown (default) or off. results-mode — where events appear. inline (a results block on this page) or none (dropdown suggestions only). A separate results page is Pro. target — an id that links this bar to its results region, e.g. target="events". Use the same value on both shortcodes. filters-visibility — where the filters sit. expanded (all options on show, the default) or bar_inline (inside the bar’s keyword row). Behind a Filters button, or permanently below the bar, are Pro. filter-style — how a filter trigger looks. text. Pill, dropdown and filled styles are Pro. placeholder — the text inside the empty search box. How the bar looks bar-template — the bar frame. unified (default, one joined bar) or detached (separate field and button). button-style — the search button. solid_icon (default), solid, outline, icon, text or none. accent-color, text-color, bg-color — hex colours, e.g. accent-color="#0f766e". control-size — the control scale as a percentage, 80–140 (default 100). corner-radius — corner rounding in pixels, 0–24 (default 8). The event list view — grid (default) or list. per-page — events per page, 1–50 (default 12). columns — grid columns, 2–5 (default 3). card-size — card scale as a percentage (default 100). card-fields — which parts of an event card show, from image, title, date, venue, cost, e.g. card-fields="image,title,date". date-format — how the event date reads. site (default, your WordPress format), long, medium, dmy or iso. template — the card design. clean. The Modern card design is Pro. [events-calendar-search-results] — a standalone event list Place this wherever the filtered events belong; it shares state with the bar through target. It accepts target, view, per-page, facets, search-fields, columns, card-size, card-fields, date-format, template, accent-color, text-color, bg-color, control-size and corner-radius — the same values as above. Examples A search box on its own, no event list: [events-calendar-search results-mode="none"] A search box with a date filter, and the event list below it in a two-column grid: [events-calendar-search facets="search,date" results-mode="inline" target="events"] [events-calendar-search-results target="events" view="grid" columns="2"] A compact bar in a sidebar widget, matching your brand: [events-calendar-search bar-template="detached" button-style="icon" accent-color="#0f766e" control-size="90"] Events as a plain list, 24 per page, showing only title and date: [events-calendar-search-results target="events" view="list" per-page="24" card-fields="title,date"] Upgrading from version 1.x? The old layout, show-events, disable-past-events and content-type attributes are still accepted and mapped onto the new engine, so shortcodes already published on your site keep working untouched. Events Search & Filter Bar Pro Everything above is free and stays free. If you need more than a keyword box and a date filter, Events Search & Filter Bar Pro adds: Wider event search — match event description, venue name and organizer name, not just the title. More event filters — category, tag, venue and organizer facets. A location filter in the bar — match city, state/region or country from your venues. More filter placements — behind a “Filters” button, or permanently below the bar, plus pill, dropdown and filled trigger styles. A separate events search results page — send the bar’s submissions to a dedicated page instead of a region on the same one. The Modern card design — a date badge on the event image. Full takeover of the events page — replace The Events Calendar’s List view with your bar and your event results, instead of swapping only its controls. Pro keeps the same shortcodes, the same settings and the same CSS class names, so upgrading doesn’t mean editing your pages. More Addons To Enhance Your Events Website If you are using The Events Calendar plugin to manage events, conferences, webinars, workshops, or local meetups, you can extend its functionality with professional event calendar addons built specifically for event websites. These addons help you improve event layout design, event listing display, search and filtering options, and overall event management on your WordPress website. Event Single Page Builder for The Events Calendar: Replace the default event template with a fully custom single event page. Design professional event pages using Elementor and showcase event schedule, venue details, maps, speakers, sponsors, ticket booking buttons, countdown timers, and call-to-action sections. You can also use it on non-Elementor websites using ready-made templates. Events Widgets for Elementor: Looking for an event widget for Elementor? This addon provides widgets to show event list, grid, and carousel. You can display events in different layouts and customize event meta fields such as date, venue, organizer, and ticket links. Events Shortcodes for The Events Calendar: Display events anywhere on your website using flexible shortcodes. Show upcoming events, past events, featured events, or category-based event listings in list, grid, slider, timeline, masonry, accordion, and more. Events Speakers & Sponsors: Add dedicated speakers and sponsors sections inside your event pages. Showcase keynote speakers, guest presenters, partners, and sponsors with structured layouts to increase credibility and improve event promotion. Events Calendar Modules for Divi: Using Divi theme? Display The Events Calendar events inside Divi Builder using custom event modules and create stylish event list and grid layouts. Some Other Cool Plugins Timeline Widget for Elementor: Create vertical and horizontal timelines inside Elementor. Cool FormKit: Add advanced fields and features to Elementor forms. 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Disclaimer: Events Search & Filter Bar is developed by Cool Plugins and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the official team of The Events Calendar. Some links inside this plugin or its readme may be affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Special Thanks Special thanks to the authors of The Events Calendar plugin for creating a powerful and widely used event management solution for WordPress.