Search Live
Help visitors find what they need faster with instant search results as they type, including excerpts and thumbnails. Search Live shows live matches from posts, pages, and other public content, with optional excerpts and thumbnails. Help visitors find content faster with live search. Matching posts, pages, and other public content appear as people type. Add results to your site’s existing search, or place a search box where you need it. Optional excerpts and thumbnails help visitors spot the right result. Shows matching results while visitors type. Can search titles, excerpts, content, or a combination. Works with posts, pages, and custom post types. Lets you choose how many results appear and whether to show excerpts or thumbnails. Supports multilingual sites using WPML. Can be added through the usual search box, a sidebar widget, or a shortcode. A smooth interactive experience with immediate results for your site’s visitors, making it easier and more efficient to find the right results. It provides instant live search results with thumbnails where matches are found for one or multiple search keywords in titles, excerpts or content, allows to enhance the standard search form with this functionality, provides a flexible shortcode [search_live] that can be placed anywhere to provide an interactive search form and a widget for use in sidebars. The shortcode and widget can be fine-tuned with sensible options to improve the search experience for your visitors. Instant search results replace the standard WordPress search form. This is enabled by default but you can turn it off. You can use the shortcode [search_live] to place a search form anywhere. You can use the Search Live widget in your sidebars. Supports Custom Post Types. Full multilanguage support and compatible with WPML. Search Live can show instant search results including thumbnails and short descriptions or manual excerpts. Among other useful options, you can determine the number of results shown and whether to search in any combination of titles, excerpts or contents. These can be determined individually for each instance of Search Live’s shortcode or widget. Search Live supplies results from posts, pages and other public post types. Search Live fully supports multilanguage sites with WPML. If you want to support our work, please visit our Shop. Feedback Feedback is welcome! If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Search Live plugin page. Please try to solve problems there before you rate this plugin or say it doesn’t work. There goes a lot of work into providing you with quality plugins! Please help with your feedback and we’re also grateful if you help spread the word about this plugin. Thanks! Social Stuff Follow us on GitHub, X – Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Rumble, YouTube for news related to this and other tools. @wpsearchlive Share your thoughts and ideas on this tool on the Search Live page. Translations Brazilian Portuguese translation by Henrique Avila Vianna. Many thanks for your help! If you would like to have your translation added, please contact us.
SearchWP Live Ajax Search
Does not require SearchWP, but will utilize it if available. Full documentation is available at searchwp.com. SearchWP Live Ajax Search enables AJAX powered live search for your search forms. Designed to be a developer’s best friend, SearchWP Live Ajax Search aims to stay out of your way but at the same time allowing you to customize everything about it. It’s set up to work with any WordPress theme and uses a template loader to display results. The template based approach allows you to seamlessly customize your SearchWP Live Search implementation without messing with dozens of cluttered options. Works best with SearchWP (but SearchWP is not necessary) SearchWP Live Ajax Search is best utilized in conjunction with SearchWP, but it is not required. If SearchWP is installed and activated, SearchWP Live Ajax Search can be customized to use any of your search engines per search form. Customization You can customize the implementation of SearchWP Live Ajax Search to a great degree, including any number of developer-defined configurations. The results are based on a template loader, allowing SearchWP Live Ajax Search to stay out of your way and letting you write the results template as you would any other WordPress theme file. Everything is powered by adding a single HTML5 data attribute (data-swplive="true") to the input field of your search form. This happens automagically out of the box for any search forms generated from get_search_form(). Widget support SearchWP Live Ajax Search ships with a Widget allowing you to insert live search forms wherever you’d like.
