WP Live Search WordPress Plugin
A super light-weight live search plugin that utilizes the WP REST API.
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:
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Your choices are posts or pages. Defaults to posts. You
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Usage of WP Live Search over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 21 to 14 — down 7 (-33.3%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 14 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 15 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 15 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 15 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 15 | +1 |
| February 2024 | 14 | -2 |
| January 2024 | 16 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 16 | +2 |
| November 2023 | 14 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 14 | -1 |
| September 2023 | 15 | -2 |
| August 2023 | 17 | -2 |
| July 2023 | 19 | -2 |
| June 2023 | 21 | — |
Sites running WP Live Search
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