Title: Simple Category Search
Author: wokamoto
Published: <strong>September 15, 2011</strong>
Last modified: April 29, 2014

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# Simple Category Search

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-category-search.0.2.1.zip)

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

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

## Description

You can choose (child) categories and see the posts belong to the chosen category
with AJAX.

When the category you choose from the list box has child categories, the child categories
will be shown in a new list box.
 Clicking the “Search” button, the list of posts
belong to the bottom category which you choose will be displayed under the “Search”
button.

## Installation

 1. Upload the entire `simple-category-search` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/`
    directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
 3. Use the following code in your Post or Page:
 4. [category-search]

#### Plugin Usage

After enabling the plugin, put the short code below into a page or a post.
 [category-
search]

Confining to a specific category, put the category ID like below.
 [category-search
parent=10] (Put the category ID after “parent=”.)

The list box is wrapped by “div.categories_search”, the search result is wrapped
by “div.search_result”.
 You can apply CSS as you like.

e.g.)
 .categories_search select{ display:inline; margin-right: .25em; float:left;
height:22px }

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

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

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

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

**0.2.1 – April 29, 2014**
 Source code refactoring

**0.2.0 – September 15, 2011**
 Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.2.1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **20+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.9.40**
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[category](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [search](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-category-search/advanced/)

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## Contributors

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

## Support

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