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Dave's WordPress Live Search

Adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. Uses the built-in search and jQuery.

Download Version 2.7

Dave's WordPress Live Search adds "live search" functionality to your WordPress site. As visitors type words into your WordPress site's search box, the plugin continually queries WordPress, looking for search results that match what the user has typed so far.

The live search technique means that most people will find the results they are looking for before they finish typing their query, and it saves them the step of having to click a submit button to get their search results.

This functionality requires Javascript, but the search box still works normally if Javascript is not available.

This plugin is compatible with the xLanguage and WPML plugins for internationalization (i18n) of search results.

This plugin also integrates with the Relevanssi plugin for improved search results.

VERSION 3.0: A big new release is planned for the 1st quarter of 2012. Want to get a sneak peek? Download the latest alpha release and try it out. It should be stable enough, but as it's an alpha there are no promises. Bug reports are always welcome.

Features of v3.0 include:

  • Improved method of getting the first thumbnail
  • Canvas/VML-based spinner eliminates the need for the transparent .gif
  • Italian (it_IT) translation
  • Spanish (es_ES) translation
  • Added hooks & filters for people to plug into DWLS
  • Fixed regex parsing issue when permalinks aren't enabled
  • Support for multiple search boxes (finally!)
  • You can now click anywhere in the result box to go to that result
  • WP E-Commerce is officially supported again
  • Toggle to enable/disable the_content filter.

TRANSLATORS WANTED: Since v2.3, Dave's WordPress Live Search supports multiple languages, but I need native speakers and translators to provide .po files for unsupported languages. Email Dave if interested.

NOTE: Dave's WordPress Live Search requires PHP 5.0 or higher.

Interested in helping with this plugin's development? The official "trunk" is always in WordPress's SVN repository, but I keep the latest code at GitHub if you want to branch send a pull request.

Author: csixty4

Requires: 2.9 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.1
Last Updated: 2012-1-26 Downloads: 44,213

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  1. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Excluding child attachments from search results inc pare
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  3. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Something that is really missing with this plugin
  4. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] It should have option to search within post titles
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  6. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Broken in WP 3.3
  7. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Warning: preg_match()
  8. [Plugin: Dave's WordPress Live Search] Can't make it work
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