Facetious WordPress Plugin
Facetious lets you add a faceted - often called an 'advanced' - search form to your WordPress website.
Facetious lets you add a faceted - often called an 'advanced' - search form to your WordPress website. It comes with a ready-to-use sidebar widget, plus a number of implementation options for developers.
A Facetious form can include dropdown lists of:
- Taxonomy terms (tags, categories, and custom taxonomies)
- Months
- Plus a conventional search input box
You can also restrict searches by post type (singular), if you so desire.
Additionally, Facetious introduces an extra 'pretty permalink' structure around search queries, which may help your site performance if you're using a caching plugin like WP Super Cache. Also, they look a heck of a lot friendlier than ?s=polly&post_type=pet&category=bird. (You don't even have to display a faceted search form on your site to benefit from these, by the way).
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Usage of Facetious over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 17 to 9 — down 8 (-47.1%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 9 | -3 |
| June 2024 | 12 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 12 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 12 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 12 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 13 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 13 | -1 |
| December 2023 | 14 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 15 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 15 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 15 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 16 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 17 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 17 | — |
Sites running Facetious
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