Title: Category Search
Author: Vladimir Prelovac
Published: <strong>June 18, 2008</strong>
Last modified: December 22, 2014

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/category-search.svg)

# Category Search

 By [Vladimir Prelovac](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/category-search.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-search/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-search/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-search/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-search/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-search/)

## Description

Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful
when you have a lot of categories and you want to display them as a part of search
results.

Plugin by [Vladimir Prelovac](http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir).

### License

This file is part of Category Search.

Category Search is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Category Search is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Category
Search. If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).

## Screenshots

[⌊Matching categories displayed⌉⌊Matching categories displayed⌉[

Matching categories displayed

## Installation

 1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
 2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
 3. Use the Options page to change your options
 4. Use the following code in your theme template most probably Search Results (search.
    php)

 Show(); ?>

Also, CategorySearch is fully compatible with [wp_list_categories() ](https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories)

This mean you can further tweak the category search results by adding additional
parameters. Example:

$CategorySearch->Show(‘orderby=count’);

## FAQ

  How do I correctly use this plugin?

In order for category search results to show you need to add the follwoing code 
to your theme search.php template.

Show(); ?>

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Category Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Vladimir Prelovac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

[Translate “Category Search” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/category-search)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-search/), 
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/category-search/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-search/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-search/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.2**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 * Tags
 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/categories/)[category](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-search/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Vladimir Prelovac ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/freediver/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-search/)

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