Title: Live Search Popup
Author: schimmi
Published: <strong>September 11, 2007</strong>
Last modified: April 11, 2008

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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/live-search-popup.svg)

# Live Search Popup

 By [schimmi](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schimmi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/live-search-popup.1.4.7.zip)

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

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

## Description

This plugin adds Spotlight ™ like live search with an ajax popup to
 the default
search box. See the screenshot.

It can be used as a widget or directly as a PHP call in the theme.

The Live Search Plugin is heavily based on John Nunemaker’s
 [Addicted To Live Search](http://www.wp-plugins-db.org/plugin/addicted-to-live-search/).

#### Changelog

 * 1.4.7 Fix by Tony for “With mouseover on result in IE, there is no background
   image or color”.
 * 1.4.6 Added livesearchpopup_resultsbox(width) to put the popup below a search
   box of your choice, e.g. from a theme.
 * 1.4.5 Do not initialize if no livesearchpopup_results is found. In contrast to
   the original live search this plugin does not make sense without the popup anyway.
   This fixes a JavaScript bug in IE7.
 * 1.4.4 Use wpurl instead of siteurl to allow installations of WordPress at different
   addresses (thanks to Draco)
 * 1.4.3 Use <?php instead of <? in live-search-popup.php
 * 1.4.2 Force update script to update the plugin.
 * 1.4.1 Switched to the_post instead of the deprecated wp_start().
 * 1.4 Finally permalinks work together with this plugin. In addition a “Show all”
   links was added at the bottom for the case that there are more posts than shown
   in the popup (thanks to Marco Luthe).
 * 1.3.4 Moved the placeholder and autocomplete attributes of the search box to 
   JavaScript as they are not XHTML valid (thanks to Marco Luthe)
 * 1.3.3 Added some print commands in front of get_bloginfos (thanks to upekshapriya
   who noticed that)
 * 1.3.2 Force update script to update the plugin.
 * 1.3.1 Relative paths in css to allow installation which are not at the domain
   root.
 * 1.3 Fixed behaviour for change and blur events of the search box. This fixes 
   the “click-through” bug.
 * 1.2.1 Updated to reflect that it works with 2.3 as well.
 * 1.2 Bugfixes
 * 1.1 Bugfixes
 * 1.0 First release

## Screenshots

[⌊The Live Search Popup in action on 1stein.org⌉⌊The Live Search Popup in action
on 1stein.org⌉[

The Live Search Popup in action on [1stein.org](http://1stein.org)

## Installation

 1. Upload the entire folder named live-search-popup to wp-contents/plugins in your
    WordPress installation (IMPORTANT: Do not change its name).
 2. Login to your WordPress administration and activate the plugin.
 3. Remove the original search field (either in the theme or in the widget configuration
    screen).
 4. Two possibilities:

* Add the live-search-popup widget to the sidebar * Or add `<?php livesearchpopup_searchbox()?
>` at the place in the theme you want the search box to appear. * Or put `<?php 
livesearchpopup_resultsbox("100%") ?>` below the search box of a theme, e.g. just
below the `<input type="text" name="s" id="s"..../>` line. The `"100%"` is the popup
width. Use e.g. `"150px"` for a fixed width of 150 pixels.

The search box is in a `<div class="livesearchpopup">...</div>`. So to place the
search nox more precisely just set the css properties of .livesearchpopup.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ schimmi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schimmi/)

[Translate “Live Search Popup” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/live-search-popup)

### Interested in development?

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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4.7**
 *  Last updated **18 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.5**
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sidebar/)[widget](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/live-search-popup/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ schimmi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/schimmi/)

## Support

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