powerSearch for bbPress vs WP Extended Search

Add an advanced search form to bbPress search page with filters and search results ordering controls. On the admin side, you can control which user roles (or visitors) can use filters, and hide the filters you don’t want to use. The Plugin adds the following filters: Forums, including an option to select forums, and search subforums Users, select a user or type username Content Type (reply, topic) Topic Status Topic Tags Date Period, predefined list of periods Change results sort order Also, plugin can replace the default search form to include the link to the advanced form. The plugin supports use of the templates’ replacement package plugin GD Quantum Theme Pro for bbPress. Plugin uses templates with filters and actions, and all templates can be overridden through theme, just like default bbPress templates can. More free dev4Press.com plugins for bbPress topicPolls for bbPress – add polls to the bbPress topics GD Forum Manager – quick and bulk forums and topics edit GD Members Directory – add new page with list of all forum members GD bbPress Attachments – attachments for topics and replies GD bbPress Tools – various expansion tools for forums Upgrade to powerSearch Pro for bbPress The Pro version contains many more great features: Highlight keywords in the search results Select where to search (title, content or both) Search by the topic sticky status Additional search filters Multi select for users filter Datetime picker for Date filter More information about powerSearch Pro for bbPress * Compare Lite vs. Pro Plugin * More premium bbPress Plugins

WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin. With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt. Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms. For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML. Features Search in selected meta keys Search in category, tags or custom taxonomies Search in the post author name Include or exclude any public post type Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all Compatible with WooCommerce. Search in product SKU, Attributes, variations, and custom fields, etc. Create unlimited search settings to use with custom search forms. Add search forms using a widget, shortcode or PHP function. Also works with custom searchform.php Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date) Customize the number of posts to display on the search results page Customize SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms Customize order of search results Control whether to match search query exactly or partially Limit attachment results by mime type e.g. display only pdf files in search results. Translation ready Compatible with WPML Links Documentation GitHub