Search Live

Help visitors find what they need faster with instant search results as they type, including excerpts and thumbnails.

Search Live shows live matches from posts, pages, and other public content, with optional excerpts and thumbnails.

Help visitors find content faster with live search. Matching posts, pages, and other public content appear as people type. Add results to your site’s existing search, or place a search box where you need it. Optional excerpts and thumbnails help visitors spot the right result.

• Shows matching results while visitors type.
• Can search titles, excerpts, content, or a combination.
• Works with posts, pages, and custom post types.
• Lets you choose how many results appear and whether to show excerpts or thumbnails.
• Supports multilingual sites using WPML.
• Can be added through the usual search box, a sidebar widget, or a shortcode.

A smooth interactive experience with immediate results for your site’s visitors, making it easier and more efficient to find the right results.

It provides instant live search results with thumbnails where matches are found for one or multiple search keywords in titles, excerpts or content, allows to enhance the standard search form with this functionality, provides a flexible shortcode [search_live] that can be placed anywhere to provide an interactive search form and a widget for use in sidebars.

The shortcode and widget can be fine-tuned with sensible options to improve the search experience for your visitors.

• Instant search results replace the standard WordPress search form. This is enabled by default but you can turn it off.
• You can use the shortcode [search_live] to place a search form anywhere.
• You can use the Search Live widget in your sidebars.
• Supports Custom Post Types.
• Full multilanguage support and compatible with WPML.

Search Live can show instant search results including thumbnails and short descriptions or manual excerpts.

Among other useful options, you can determine the number of results shown and whether to search in any combination of titles, excerpts or contents. These can be determined individually for each instance of Search Live’s shortcode or widget.

Search Live supplies results from posts, pages and other public post types.

Search Live fully supports multilanguage sites with WPML.

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Feedback

Feedback is welcome!

If you need help, have problems, want to leave feedback or want to provide constructive criticism, please do so here at the Search Live plugin page.

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Translations

Brazilian Portuguese translation by Henrique Avila Vianna.

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You can install this plugin directly from your WordPress Dashboard. Go to Plugins > Add New, search for Search Live and install the plugin by itthinx. Alternatively, you can install the plugin manually:

1. Go to Plugins > Add New > Upload and choose the plugin’s zip file, or extract the contents and copy the search-live folder to your site’s /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Enable the plugin from the Plugins menu in WordPress.
3. Review the settings under the Search Live menu. Please refer to the documentation on how to deploy the [search_live] shortcode or the Search Live widget.

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   Search Live Example

The full changelog is available in the changelog.txt.