WordPress Plugins for Search
Having a built in search is extremely important for blogs with hundreds of archived posts. Even more important? Having a search box that’s displayed in an easy-to find post.There are a number of different wordpress Search plugins to use in your blog I collected a lot of them enjoy!
Google Search Plugins
Google Search for WordPress
Replaces WordPress Search with Google Search. You must abide by Google’s terms of use.
More from Google
Easily embed Google search results within your WordPress site, with the More from Google plugin.
Google Blog Search Preview
Google Blog Search Preview is a simple plugin for WordPress which displays incoming links from Google Blog Search.
Google Ajax Search
Adds a Google AJAX Search box on your site. Options include searching your site through Google Blog Search and/or straight up Google
Twitter Search Plugins
TwitterSearch
TwitterSearch allows users to keep track of twitter search terms from within their wordpress dashboard.
WP-TwitterSearch
Displays the latest results based on a twitter search. Options include setting multiple search terms and limiting tweets shown.
Categories Search Plugins
Super Search
Generates a drop-down list and a text box to allow your visitors to search for posts within specific categories.
Search By Category
Reconfigures search results to display results based off of category of posts.
Category Search
Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories.
Enhanced Search Form
Enhance wordpress search form to allow searching posts in certain category(s), month archive(s) or tag(s).
Gallery Search Plugins
NextGEN Gallery Search
NextGEN Gallery Search is a simple NextGEN addon that let you search within your galleries.
Other Search Plugins
Guest Blogger
Simplifies finding a guest blogger, searching for an interesting post and creating a guest account. Adding expert articles becomes real easy.
Search and Share – Text Selection
Get credit for your content. Whenever someone selects text on your site, your page title and URL will be included in the footer of the copied text.
WP e-Commerce Search Widget
Adds a Customizable Search Widget for WP-Ecommerce Products to give you more control over how the search box looks on your sidebar.
Q-Sensei Sidebar Widgets
This Plugin allows you to quickly and easily include the useful features of the Q-Sensei Search Engine directly into your blog.
Search Unleashed
Advanced WordPress search with wildcards, highlighting, log, and ability to search all post data. Now with Lucene!
Dave’s WordPress Live Search
Adds “live search” functionality to your WordPress site. Uses the built-in search and jQuery.
Search Meter
Search Meter tracks what your readers are searching for on your blog. View full details of recent searches or stats for the last day, week or month.
Real Estate Search
Real Estate Search plugin enables you to use browse through listings using tag combinations.
Relevanssi
Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.
Search API
Search API is a set of functions that allows developers to easily implement new search functionality for WordPress.
Recent Searches Widget
This plugin shows recent searches in a sidebar widget.
Search Everything
Increases WordPress’ default search functionality through an options panel. Options include search highlight, searching pages, excerpts, attachments.
WP Custom Fields Search
This plugin allows multiple form inputs to be configured to search different aspects of a post including custom fields.
SearchEkko
SearchEkko is a “related posts” widget that uses visitors’ search referral terms to find and present your best-matching posts.
Dave’s External Search
Widget that displays on your WordPress search results page with similar items from your Flickr, YouTube, and Twitter feeds.
Wowhead Sidebar Search
Put a Wowhead search box in your sidebar. Has configurable sizes and content.
Better Search
Replace the default WordPress search with a contextual search. Search results are sorted by relevancy.
Sphinx Search
Sphinx Search is a plugin that uses the Search API plugin and Sphinx as a backend for searching.
Ubiquity-Blog-Search
A plugin to let visitors search through your blog with the Ubiquity-Firefox-Addon.
wpSearchMu
wpSearchMu is a very powerful search plugin for WordPress Mu. It is based on the open source search engine “Lucene” which means its fast and relevant.
Search Regex
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress that go beyond the standard searching capabilities, with full regex supp
Quick Search
Quick Search add AJAX Search to your site
Search Plugin for browser
This plugin allows your visitors to easily install the search bar of your site in their browser.
wp-autosuggest
WP AutoSuggest adds the Auto Suggest support to the WordPress search.
Highlight Search Terms
Lightweight search terms highlighter when referer is a search engine or within wp search results using jQuery.
Searchles Related Posts Widget
Display contextually related posts from your blog using the Searchles Discovery Platform.
Amazon Search
Lets you add links to Amazon using a special markup. Also includes an optional widget to search Amazon and display results in your blog.
Customizable Search Widget
Adds a Customizable Search Widget to give you more control over how the search box looks on your sidebar.
WordPress Sphinx Search Plugin
This software replaces WordPress’s built-in search functionality with the Sphinx Search Engine, which gives high-performance, relevant search results.
Searchles Discovery Related Content
The Searchles Discovery Widget is a wrapper that displayes the Searchles Discovery Widget in the sidebar of a WordPress Blog.
Viewzi Site Search for WordPress
Add Viewzi Site Search to your Site.
Searchable Links
Turns values saved in the Searchable Links box of each post into links that when clicked, search your site for that specific value.
Google Custom Search Plugin
Google Custom Search plugin for WordPress replaces the default search engine with Google’s Custom Search for websites.
OpenSearch
Add OpenSearch discovery and querying to your WordPress site.
wpSearch
wpSearch is a very powerful search plugin for WordPress. It is based on the open source search engine “Lucene” which means its fast and relevant.
LiveSearch
Includes LiveSearch in your blog. Now Widgetized.
Search Permalink
Search Permalink redirects search form queries to cruft-free permalink URIs.
Lyric Wiki Search Widget
Adds a sidebar widget to search for song lyrics on the LyricWiki.org site.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
On HCG for weight loss we use most of them and have found
reliable operations. Makes works easier! I do recommend these tools.
June 10th, 2010 at 10:17 am
wow … really huge list
as I know google custom search is very popular , but I use http://search-plugins.com , it is really much better and more adopted for WP than google’s one