Title: Search shortcode
Last modified: February 27, 2017

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# Search shortcode

 *  Resolved [paisleyhomedesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paisleyhomedesign/)
 * (@paisleyhomedesign)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-shortcode-5/)
 * Hello,
    Thank you so much for your plugin. I’m looking to integrate it with Document
   Gallery so that I can offer the user a searchable option for the gallery. I know
   that the solution is in your documentation somewhere, but I’m unable to find 
   it.
 * So, in layman’s terms…What shortcode do I use to add a search that will read 
   att tags and att categories? I’m sure there is a simple solution, just haven’t
   come up with it yet.
 * Thank you so much for your help and time!!
 * Heather

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 *  Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
 * (@dglingren)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-shortcode-5/#post-8855549)
 * Thanks for the good words and for your question. I don’t have any experience 
   with the Document Gallery plugin, but I believe that MLA can provide an equivalent
   solution for most applications.
 * If you have assigned terms in the Att. Tags and Att. Categories taxonomies to
   your items you can use several MLA shortcodes to compose galleries filtered by
   term values. The `[mla_tag_cloud]` and `[mla_term_list]` shortcodes can be used
   to present terms to the user and term selections can be passed to the `[mla_gallery]`
   shortcode to display the results. You can also use the “Taxonomy term keyword(
   s) search” feature for a text-based term search.
 * There are several simple examples in the Settings/Media Library Assistant Documentation
   tab. There are also many earlier support topic with more advanced examples. Here
   is one recent topic that links to earlier topics with solution variations:
 * [Shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-456/#post-8337023)
 * Here’s a really simple example:
 * [Does Att. Tags dropdown exist for filtering gallery?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/att-tags-dropdown-working-with-gallery/)
 * Here’s a topic regarding the taxonomy terms keyword search:
 * [Searching for multiple Keywords on the front-end](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/searching-for-multiple-keywords-on-the-front-end/)
 * Have a look at the above examples. Once you have a specific approach in mind 
   I can give you more specific guidance. Thanks for your interest in the plugin.
 *  Plugin Author [David Lingren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dglingren/)
 * (@dglingren)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-shortcode-5/#post-9063439)
 * It has been seven weeks since the last post in this topic. I hope you found the
   material in the earlier topics helpful.
 * I am marking this topic resolved, but please update it if you have problems or
   further questions regarding the above suggestions.

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