Title: Search box support
Last modified: July 23, 2023

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# Search box support

 *  [abcman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abcman/)
 * (@abcman)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-box-support/)
 * Hi and I appreciate everyone help on this. What is the best plugin I can use 
   that is free where I can search in a particular database within my website and
   the result is shown on the website. I appreciate if you have a video on that 
   as well. Many thanks.
    -  This topic was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).

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 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-box-support/#post-16915740)
 * What kind of database is it? Are you talking about individual database tables
   within WordPress’ own database or do you mean a really separate, second database?
 *  Thread Starter [abcman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abcman/)
 * (@abcman)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-box-support/#post-16915743)
 * I wanted to create a database that contains names and certificate numbers where
   people can search based on for example the certificate number so basically it
   is an individual database that I need to find away to access and allow users 
   of the website to search in. If there is a video or a free plugin I can use then
   I am much appreciated.
 *  Moderator [threadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/threadi/)
 * (@threadi)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-box-support/#post-16915761)
 * I think you’re making it too complicated for yourself. You do not need your own
   database for this. You can also maintain the data within WordPress. You would
   have to create a custom post type in which you store the names and numbers. You
   can then make this custom post type searchable using a form in the frontend.
 * You can implement such custom post types yourself. There is a chapter on this
   in the developer manual for plugin development: [https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/post-types/](https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/post-types/)
 * If you don’t want to program yourself, you can also use plugins that allow you
   to create something like this. For example, ACF is widely used: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/)–
   you can look up how to do it there in their documentation.
 * There are also other alternatives, although they are not as comprehensive as 
   ACF: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-types/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/custom-post-types/)

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-box-support/#post-16915761)
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