Title: Limited search function
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Limited search function

 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-search-function/)
 * I would like to change the search form thus, that it doesn’t search through the
   entire database, but only through one table, being the post_title table. Is this
   possible with just altering the code or would this require a plugin?
    (It would
   be even greater if checkboxes provided a choice between searching only titles
   and search everything.)

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 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-search-function/#post-611834)
 * Ok, this is a stupid question?
    If I try to make it with a search.php (my default
   template doesn’t have one and I hoped I wouldn’t need one), can I put in the 
   arguments there and still be able to use the ‘double search function’ (just titles
   or everything)?
 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-search-function/#post-611876)
 * Can the above be done with the King Search widget? I haven’t been able to try
   it myself, because it doesn’t work in WP 2.2.3.
 *  Thread Starter [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-search-function/#post-611893)
 * Does _anybody_ know a search widget that works with 2.2.x (and up) that has extra
   features? I have found but one not-standard widget that works with my 2.2.3 (
   proper search) but it doesn’t have any ‘extras’ (adjustments), it just search
   differently (or so).

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 * Last reply from: [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limited-search-function/#post-611893)
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