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gee Search Plus, improved WordPress search

Extends WordPress search engine to taxonomies, custom fields and media, sorts results by relevance or date, and more. Simple and clean!

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Tested up to WordPress 4.6
Current version1.4.4
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 4.6
Minimum stackWP 3.5 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update2 Dec 20169y ago
Active installations90Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 15 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records gee Search Plus, improved WordPress search version 1.4.4 as active, updated 9y ago and tested up to WordPress 4.6.

Overview

About this plugin

gee Search Plus extends the WordPress search engine without messing with the database, sorts results by relevance (or date), and more.

New Features (since 1.4)

  • Extend search to Media

New Features (since 1.3)

  • Order results by Relevance or by Date
  • Define matching rules: at least one search term (OR query) or require all terms (AND query)
  • Define your own highlight style (CSS class: gee-search-highlight)
  • i18n ready

Features

  • Searches through all the posts, pages and custom post types, by title and content
  • Extends search to all custom taxonomies, category and tags
  • Extends search to custom fields
  • Highlights searched terms (optional)
  • Limit highlight feature to specific html elements
  • Removes stopwords from search query (merged with native WordPress stopwords mechanism)
  • Integrates the stopwords mechanism with Stella multi-language plugin, by removing the current language stopwords from the search query

Very easy to use and setup! No new database tables or complex configurations. gee Search Plus uses only WordPress’ APIs and functions!

Simple and Clean!

Tired of complex plugins to improve the default WordPress search?

4 it also searches through media. It orders the results by date or relevance, calculating the search words hits through the title and content, taxonomies, custom fields and media of each post.

This plugin also includes a stopwords mechanism to remove the non-relevant words from the query, thus increasing the relevance of the results. Stopwords can be defined manually (using the settings page) or by using the default files provided with the plugin package.

Available translations

  • Portuguese

Notes

  • This release is compatible with multisite single blog installation
  • This release is compatible with all WordPress versions since 3.5. If you are still using an older one, upgrade your WordPress NOW!
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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • custom post types search
  • custom taxonomies search
  • improve search
  • relevance
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 4.6

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 4.6.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to4.6
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5 · PHP not listed
Update activity2 Dec 20169y ago

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