Custom Search by BestWebSoft – Advanced WordPress Search Bar Plugin

Description

Custom Search plugin adds custom post types, taxonomies, and custom fields to WordPress website search results. A quick and easy way to search everything within custom post types, custom fields, and taxonomies.
Improve your website user experience today!

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Free Features

• Search by:
  • All custom post types including:
    • Galleries
    • Portfolio projects
    • Cars
    • Properties & Agents
    • Jobs
  • Taxonomies:
    • Post tags
    • Post categories
    • Custom taxonomies
  • Custom fields
• Change search results displaying:
  • List (default)
  • Tabs
• Search by post types translated using Multilanguage plugin
• Compatible with latest WordPress version
• Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
• Detailed step-by-step documentations and videos
• Multilingual and RTL ready

Pro Features

All features from Free version included plus:

• Disable custom search for certain pages and/or post types
• Configure custom post types and taxonomies displaying order on the search results page
• Display featured image for post types on the search results page
• Choose featured image size
• Choose featured image align position:
  • Left
  • Right
• Search by the post type of the current page
• Change excerpt length
• Add custom code via plugin settings page
• Get answer to your question within one business day (Support Policy)

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If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

• [Doc] User Guide
• [Doc] Installation
• [Doc] Purchase
• [Video] Installation Instruction
• [Video] Purchase, Installation, Configuration Tutorial

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help – https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Translation

• Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to PaMaDeSSoft, www.pamadessoft.cz)
• Russian (ru_RU)
• Spanish (es_ES) (thanks to Fernando De León)
• Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

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• Updater – Automatically check and update WordPress website core with all installed plugins and themes to the latest versions.

Screenshots

Installation

1. Upload the folder custom-search-plugin to the directory /wp-content/plugins/.
2. Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Plugin settings are available in “Custom Search”->”Settings”.

View a Step-by-step Instruction on Custom Search Installation

FAQ

How to use Custom Search plugin?

Go to the Settings page and select post types and taxonomies that you would like to add to the search. For editing the display order of search results, move the elements of the list in the necessary order.

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:
– The link to the page where the problem occurs
– The name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
– The version of your WordPress installation
– Copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Reviews

Works with EDD

delphineous February 22, 2022

Allows me to enable searching the custom fields in Easy Digital Downloads. Now it is easier to find my products by sku and other custom data.

bad, confusing

misticx June 14, 2019 1 reply

Almost no options at all in a free version, bad explained.

Use to be great, now SLOW

aptharsia May 17, 2018 1 reply

I don’t know why the new version (from the old discontinued plugin) is so much slower. It would also be nice to have an option on excluding excerpts and only search titles along with the custom fields.

Does not wat it says in the free version

Moshje September 3, 2016 1 reply

“This plugin allows searching by custom post types on your website.” Nope. That’s a PRO feature.

best

matiwati September 3, 2016

dobry

Plugin works, but licensing mechanism is insane.

flukesh September 3, 2016 1 reply

If you’re using this for anything where you need a development, staging, and live environments, forget it. They go to such great lengths to validate your license and then break the plugin, it’s rendering it essentially useless for me even though I bought three separate licenses for all my environments. If they would release a version without this licensing issue and rely a bit more on the decency of people to buy a valid license, maybe I would stay a user.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

V1.51 – 08.08.2024

• Load optimization for search results.
• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.6.

V1.50 – 23.05.2024

• Bugfix : Small bugs fixed.
• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.5.

V1.49 – 06.10.2023

• Update : Settings page was updated.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 6.3.

V1.48 – 26.08.2021

• PRO : Settings page was updated.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.8.

V1.47 – 28.09.2020

• NEW : The “[cstmsrch_search]” shortcode is added.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Bugfix : The bug with the display visible pictures has been fixed.

V1.46 – 30.06.2020

• Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.4.2.
• Update : BWS Panel section was updated.
• Update : Settings page was updated.

V1.45 – 14.11.2019

• Bugfix : The bug with wrong table prefix has been fixed.

V1.44 – 04.09.2019

• Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.43 – 13.08.2019

• NEW : Ability to search by categories translated using Multilanguage by BestWebSoft has been added.
• Bugfix : The bug with the menu displaying on search page has been fixed.

V1.42 – 06.12.2018

• NEW : Ability to change search results displaying has been added.

V1.41 – 12.11.2018

• Update : The plugin settings page has been changed.
• Pro : Abilty to disable search option for certain pages and/or post types has been added.

V1.40 – 09.04.2018

• NEW : Ability to search by custom fields has been added.

V1.39 – 29.01.2018

• Update : The plugin settings page has been changed.

V1.38 – 25.10.2017

• Update : Code that is used to connect filters is added only on frontend.

V1.37 – 08.08.2017

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.8.

V1.36 – 14.04.2017

• Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.

V1.35 – 12.01.2017

• NEW : Ability to search by term name has been added.

V1.34 – 09.08.2016

• Update : All functionality for wordpress 4.6 was updated.

V1.33 – 27.06.2016

• Update : BWS panel section is updated.

V1.32 – 15.03.2016

• NEW : The Czech language file is added.
• Pro : Ability to add custom styles.

V1.31 – 30.11.2015

• Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.
• Pro : Drag&drop functionality on mobile was fixed.

V1.30 – 25.09.2015

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.3.1.

V1.29 – 06.07.2015

• New : Ability to restore settings to defaults.
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.28 – 05.06.2015

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : The Ukrainian and Russian languages are updated in the plugin.

V1.27 – 15.05.2015

• NEW : We added checkbox to mark all custom post types in the settings page.
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2.

V1.26 – 06.03.2015

• Bugfix : Bugs with syntax error and undefined function were fixed.

V1.25 – 05.03.2015

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.24 – 05.03.2015

• Bugfix : Script file linking was fixed.
• Bugfix : We added search variable checking to make sure it is not empty in order to avoid conflicts.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.1.

V1.23 – 26.12.2014

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.

V1.22 – 12.08.2014

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.0-beta3.
• Bugfix : Security Exploit was fixed.

V1.21 – 23.05.2014

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.9.1.
• Update : The Ukrainian language is updated in the plugin.

V1.20 – 08.04.2014

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.8.1.
• Bugfix : Plugin optimization is done.
• Bugfix : Problem with including nav_menu types to the search results is fixed.
• Bugfix : Bug with displaying of custom types of deactiveted plugins is fixed.

V1.19 – 07.02.2014

• Update : Screenshots are updated.
• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.8.1.
• Budfix : Problem with search results in back-end is fixed.

V1.18 – 26.12.2013

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.8.

V1.17 – 25.11.2013

• Update : BWS plugins section is updated.
• Bugfix : The error with argument 2 in function array_merge() is fixed.

V1.16 – 31.10.2013

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.7.1.
• Update : Activation of radio button or checkbox by clicking on its label.
• NEW : Add checking installed wordpress version.

V1.15 – 02.10.2013

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.6.1.
• NEW : The Ukrainian language file is added to the plugin.

V1.14 – 04.09.2013

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.6.
• Update : Function for displaying BWS plugins section placed in a separate file and has own language files.
• NEW : Added additional links on the plugin page.

V1.13 – 18.07.2013

• NEW : Added an ability to view and send system information by mail.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.5.2.

V1.12 – 24.05.2013

• Bugfix : The error related to undefined variable is fixed.
• Changed : BWS plugins section.

V1.11 – 06.05.2013

• Update : The Spanish language is updated in the plugin.

V1.10 – 17.04.2013

• Update : The English language is updated in the plugin.

V1.09 – 20.02.2013

• NEW : The Spanish language file is added to the plugin.

V1.08 – 31.01.2013

• Bugfix : The admin menu bug is fixed.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.5.1.

V1.07 – 21.12.2012

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.5.

V1.06 – 24.07.2012

• Bugfix : Cross Site Request Forgery bug is fixed.

V1.05 – 10.07.2012

• NEW : The Hebrew language file is added to the plugin.
• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.4.1.

V1.04 – 27.06.2012

• Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 3.4.

V1.03 – 12.03.2012

• Changed : BWS plugins section.

V1.02 – 24.02.2012

• Change : Code which includes styles and scripts is added to the plugin for correct SSL verification.

V1.01 – 21.02.2012

• NEW : Language files are added to the plugin.