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Search Live
Search Live supplies integrated live search facilities and advanced search features.
Instant Search Results
This tool provides instant live search results 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.
- 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.
- Search Live automatically supports Custom Post Types, for example products or events. Any plugin that supplies its own public post type will be supported instantly.
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. We’re working on an extended version that provides enhanced features and support for taxonomies.
Download
You can install the plugin directly from your WordPress Dashboard or go to the Search Live plugin page on WordPress.org where you can download it.
Screenshots
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Comments
72 responses to “Search Live”
Hey sir, I am having a problem using your this tool, I want to make searches from only titles but I am not able to see as your given screen shots showing, is there anyway to implement this with your plugin by editing php file, if yes please provide the code here please, I would really love to give it a try.
Hi,
You can use the shortcode with the appropriate parameter for this:
[search_live excerpt="no" content="no"]. You can use that also in a block.See the Shortcodes section of the documentation for more details on it. If you’re using classic widgets, the widget provided by the plugin has appropriate settings.
Cheers
Hi, the search plugin is great. Thanks for it! I will use it in a real estate portal. One question: If I understand the documentation well, it is possible to select the post types for search with a filter in PHP mode. Is this possible with a shortcode too? Unfortunately I am not a developer and my knowledge of PHP is very limited.
Hi Marc, thanks for the nice comment on the plugin!
Currently, the shortcode doesn’t support it directly but you can easily use the filter search_live_post_types (linked to the documentation page).
One easy way to implement it is to add it to your child theme’s functions.php …
add_filter( 'search_live_post_types', 'immolistmallorca_search_live_post_types' );function immolistmallorca_search_live_post_types( $post_types ) {
return array( 'post', 'page', 'listing' );
}In the example, search would be limited to the basic post types and an assumed ‘listing’ custom post type.
References:
Search Live API
add_filter
Child ThemesCheers!
Dear Kento, thank you so much! I do not see a button where I can buy a coffee for you. If I could I ordered at least five. Have a great weekend. Cheers, Marc
Hi Marc,
Thank you very much 🙂
Please just keep us in mind if you ever need a tool related to our work, maybe you’ll find it in our Shop.
Cheers
Hi, I am new to Search Live. I have embedded shortcode in my WordPress template and added attributes and the plugin works. But I want to add inline styles. They don’t seem to be doing anything. This is the code I wrote in the inline styles field in my WordPress dashboard and then saved the changes (after I unchecked the standard stylesheet). Can anybody help? Thank you.
Edited, see https://paste.ec/paste/ApHuxZax#X7E-zVtFHK4XrktG2Zqw0DSUgmG2w7L2WyDWrKj9haK for code
Hi Aleks, if the CSS rule is not picked up it might just be that you need to clear the cache on your site.
Hi,
Thanks for the plugin. Can I add a search loop icon next to the textbox as a submit button?
Regards,
Rasha
Hi Rasha,
You can do that by applying the right CSS rules to the button. You could add the rules in your child theme’s stylesheet, or use the Appearance section to add them. To have the button appear, you should check the box for the Widget or use the
submit_buttonoption for the shortcode or API function.Cheers
The plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-live/ has not been updated for 8 months and it is compatible up to 5.4.4 (instead of 5.5.3). Do you plan to update the plugin? If yes, when?
Hi Steve, we will be issuing an update shortly. In any case, there are no particular issues that I would know of even with the latest version of WordPress.
Hi Kento,
Thank you for the update.
Can you please be a bit more specific on the “shortly” comment e.g. 3rd of December or 4th of December?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Steve, thanks for asking but I can’t give you an exact ETA for it at the moment.
FYI new release is out
Is the plugin Compatible with Divi Theme?
Hi Tom,
Yes, I would recommend to have a look at the Shortcodes and API sections of the documentation if you need to integrate it more specifically within Divi modules via shortcodes or templates.
Cheers
Hi.
I love your plugin.
But, he work when i saw the site like as admin.
In incognito or firefox plugin doesn’t work.
Can you help me?Hi Serii,
Thanks for your kind comment on the plugin! If you get different results when viewing with Firefox in incognito mode, it could be because your posts are protected and you are not logged in? Or if you refer to the live search functionality, it could be that you have Javascript disabled.
Cheers
Hello,
My problem is when I test Search Live plugin (search icon menu in my web) and put for example “santo” and click enter there are 2 problems: 1. doesn’t appers the diferents options and 2. always the result page is the home page.
The theme is own theme, I tried take off all other plugins for possible conflics (that doesn’t work).
Any idea where is the problem?
Hi Maria,
I have tried to access your site linhazul.info to have a look but it seems that your server is timing out. This could be related to issues with your setup – the error I got when trying to access your site is: “Error 403: no se encuentra una página index en el directorio” – I assume that what you have experienced with the plugin might be related to it. Please have a look and when you’ve got the server back working let us know so we can have another look.
Cheers
Hi Hans,
I notice that the plugin doesn’t find any results if there are some words before the keyword.
Just to be clear if i want to find the keyword “wordpress” and I just insert “wordpress” all works fine…
If I insert instead some strings before … “I like wordpress” the plugin shows no results…
It’s possibile to solve this scenario?
It seems to me pretty important…Cheers
Hi Fabio,
When you input several search terms, it will produce matches that contain all of the terms. For example, searching for “gold” will provide matches that contain the term, will searching for “gold silver” will only produce matches that contain *both* “gold” and “silver”.
Cheers
هل يمكن اخفاء نتيجة البحث ما لم تكن متوافقة مع الادخال؟
Hi saad!
Looks like you are asking “Can I hide a search result unless it is compatible with the input?”, correct? The search results that the tool provides would correspond to matching posts (and other post types). It will look in all public post types to provide results but if you want to restrict the post types to only particular ones, then you can use the
search_live_post_typesfilter which is described on the API documentation page.Cheers
Hi!
Thanks for that awesome plugin!I’m looking for the possibility to output the content of another widget-shortcode, that is placed in the excerpt of a woocommerce product.
The shortcode itself is being shown in the results, but not the content of these shortcode.Where and how to hook in, so i can see the content instead of just “raw” shortcode?
I*m not a programmer, so I’m thankful for clear advices. 🙂
LukHi Luk,
Thanks for your kind comment! Let me check this and issue an update as this is not supposed to happen.
Cheers
Hey Kento,
thanks for the answer.
Is there a possibility to send you the url to the website, where the problem exists? I don’t want to post the site here.Greetings, Luk
Hi Luk,
Thanks I’ve already checked it, it’s not particular to your site but seems to happen in general. I’ll need to review the plugin and fix it so it doesn’t show the shortcodes in the content but rather the rendered content.
Cheers
Hello Kento,
I’ll check for updates in future.
Thanks
I just wanted to say I added your plugin to my site and it works great! I do have one question I am trying to keep the standard styling but change the background to a light grey. When I try to use the inline styling it doesn’t change the output. So I was wonder if you could help me with the inline styling.
Hi Mark,
Sure, could you please share what CSS rules you have added?
Cheers
Hi, great job making this plugin, we’re using it because it works perfectly with the Groups plugin.
I’m wondering if it’s possible to use this plugin to search through custom post meta fields? I didn’t find a shortcode that does thatHi Marco,
Sorry, right now the plugin doesn’t support custom post meta.
It seems a good idea, we will review it for future updates.
Thank you very much for the contribution.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.Thanks for the reply, Antonio.
Let me give you an example of what I said (that, by the way, is the current situation of our website).
For an e-commerce website is fundamental to let people search for product codes (like SKUs or EANs) through the searchbar.
We, for example save those codes as custom post metas.
In our website, I installed the Groups plugin (another amazing plugin) and this search plugin is the only compatible with it, so I absolutely have to use this plugin.
Right now, I solved the issue by adding to each product description (post_content) the SKU code, so that by writing the code into the search bar, the product would show up.Thanks Marco,
Remember that you are using Woocommerce and its SKU product fields, you have available the Woocommerce Product Search plugin.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hi, great plugin. Thanks!
wondering if it is possible to search for tags as well?
Would be very very useful to add this feature.
thanks
Hi,
Many thanks for your kind comment. Currently the plugin doesn’t allow you to search based on tags but I’m working on several enhancements and this (searching also in tags and more generically terms) feature is part of it. I can’t promise on an ETA yet but there will be quite a few welcome surprises 😉
Cheers
Hi, first of all thank you for the plugin – great work.
Second, I have a little problem: when it doesn;t find any post it displays all the posts from the wp. It should say that no post was found… Where I can change this? Thank youHi tj,
You’re right, I’ll include a fix for this in the next update. Thank you very much for your feedback and for reporting the issue.
Cheers
Hi, great plugin and I am very happy to use it. Thing is – it stopped working suddenly. (Nothing has changed, no updates, no nothing). It shows results after submitting, but it stopped showing live results.
please advise
O.
Hi Ondrej,
I can see that you have javascript errors.
Please check if your plugin folder is ‘search-live’.
If this is ok, then check if another plugin related with performance or security is changing the javascript load process (you can try to disable them).
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hi, just installed your plugin and put this on my site: [search_live title=”yes” content=”no” excerpt=”no” placeholder=”Suchen…”]
Works well so far but i dont get any instant results shown under the search bar itself. I think im just too stupid to setup correctly ^^. I added a new Pages with a Title (e.g. “Dog”) and then i type “dog” in search form and i dont get instant result but when i press enter i get a link to this page called “Dog”. So that works well!
I do not use any other search plugins so there cannot be a mess (i think).
Can anyone help me maybe?
Thanks !!Hi Tim,
Please give me an url to test it.
Sometimes users get confused with the widget and use the normal wordpress search widget, maybe is this the problem?
If you are using the normal search widget, you need to have activated the ‘Replace the standard WordPress search form’ option (from Serach Live->Search Live)
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.Hi, thanks for response. Okay so my test URL ist https://raubtier-portal.de/ so if u search for “marder” and press enter then it will show a correct search result (a link to the page “marder”) but not an instant result^^
I did checkbox “replace the standard WordPress search form” and i deleted all search widgets. I only work with the shortcode for your plugin (now its [search_live placeholder=Suchen…]) But i can understand if you cannot help me via this chat. maybe i need to ask a friend who knows a bit more about wordpress at all so he maybe can check my backend.Regards, Tim
Thanks Tim,
I have tried this code:
echo do_shortcode( '[search_live placeholder=Suchen…]' );
and it seems to work correctly.
Maybe is a cache problem? If you are using a cache plugin, please try to disable or clear cache.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
hi, just want to ask, can i use this to replace wordpress’ default search bar on the top menu? or it cal only be used as a shortcode or in the sidebar?
thanks!
Hi ian,
You can add the search form in your themes. Please have a look at the API page.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
This is a nice plugin. But i have a question. Can i change in the setting that you must fill in the whole title and than will you see one search result. Is that possible?
Hi Nick,
Really if the user need to write the whole title, he doesn’t need the search. You could play with the ‘Characters’ param in the Search Live widget, so the user need to set a minimum number of characters to start the search.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hello! I have translated the plugin’s strings to Portuguese (Brazil). Is there any way I can send you the files, so they can be included in a future update?
I would also suggest you guys consider moving to WP’s online translation platform – https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-live
Cheers and thanks for the great plugin!
Hi Henrique,
Sure, you can send us the translation to itthinx[at]itthinx[dot]com
Thank you very much for the contribution.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hello, installed your Search Live plugin and it fits perfect for my use!
Just one question: How can I change the title (Search…) in the search field? I would like to replace this by a (german) phrase.
Thank you in advance!
Kind Regards,
FockeHi,
If you’re using the widget, you will see there is a field “Placeholder” where you can change it – please see http://docs.itthinx.com/document/search-live/widgets/ for details. Does that help?
Thanks for using the plugin and great to hear you like it! It would be great if you could give it a 5 star rating, a review will take you only a minute – and of course if there is anything that would keep you from giving it 5 stars, please make sure to let me know so we can improve it.
Cheers
Hi,
thanks for your fast reply! I’m using the plugin with a shortcocode within a page. But it’s solved, I added the placeholder phrase the shortcode.
Kind Regards,
Focke
Hello, Thanks for the excellent plugin. I have a question. How can it work faster? I am typing some terms in the search form and it takes like 2 mins to show the results
Hi Ruben,
It should not take so long, you may have a conflict with another plugin.
You could try to disable unnecessary plugins and activating them one by one to find the possible problem.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.I’ve noticed this to be a problem amongst many instant search or typeahead related search plugins. I’ve had best of luck with itthinx plugin, no doubt but take antonio advice. here are three things to try:
• activate debug in wp-config
• disable than reactive one at a time
• upgrade your hosting environment
• change theme that is using slop codethanks for the contribution matt.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hey buddy, great plugin!
Here is current shortcode: [search_live placeholder=”Search “]
How do I get placeholder to display PHP? I just want placeholder to match current page title.
Thanks in advance!
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_title/
Hi Webmaster,
We’re using this codeapply_filters( 'search_live_placeholder', $placeholder );, so you can use this filter to create your own custom solution.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
I need to search only in specific category or post type . How can i customize this plugin
Hi Alley,
right now this option is not available. The post_type used on the search is set in search-live/core/class-search-live-service.php, line 270 (if you need to customize your solution, but remember that modify the code is not the best solution).
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Hi, many thanks for your really nice plugin. But there is one big think I’m missing in the plugin! For my search results I had installed the plugin “Search Exclude” which is function to exclude a page or post when this one is selected. The standard search results of WP was using this but your plugin is not looking to it any more. This results that all posts and pages are shown even when I don’t want to have them at the results. Will it be possible to add this to the search results?
Further it would be really nice if you would have the settings to say which results you would like to include or exclude. For example exclude all pages, or some categories, etc.
Many thanks.
PascalHi Pascal,
That’s true, this feature is not available, and it could be useful. We will consider it for future updates.
Thanks for the suggestion,
Antonio B.Many thanks, would be really great if it does. Is there a way to change it by my self in the plugin?
Hi Pascal,
You will need a developer to create your custom solution.
Please understand that small hacks, modifications, low or under-budgeted projects are not accepted.
Maybe in http://jobs.wordpress.net/ you can found a developer.
Kind regards,
Antonio B.Hi Pascal,
Many thanks for your suggestions. We’re in fact working on an extended version which will provide more detailed control over the post types that can be included. Also the idea with allowing to exclude certain pages is interesting and I think we should certainly take it into account. Regarding your question, please have a look from line 270 in search-live/core/class-search-live-service.php – I don’t normally recommend to hack plugin code itself, but meanwhile you can set the $post_types variable to those post types you want to include only.
I hope that helps, please let us know if you need more help.
Cheers
Hi Pascal,
if you go to work at it, let me know if I can help you.
Kind Regards,
Antonio B.
Sorry, the post is missing something: “and pressing on my keyboard” must be “and pressing ENTER on my keyboard” and “Can I disable the -key?” must be Can I disable the ENTER-key?
Hi,
Installed your Search Live plugin and it is perfect, thanks for sharing! I have one question… When entering the search term and pressing on my keyboard the ugly WP/Theme search results page is shown. Can I disable the -key?
Best regards, Hans.
Hi Hans,
There is an option to inhibit the Enter key, e.g. for the shortcode it’s the
inhibit_enterattribute – see http://docs.itthinx.com/document/search-live/shortcodes/.Cheers
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