Title: Searchy
Author: livecanvas
Published: <strong>July 13, 2015</strong>
Last modified: July 13, 2015

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/searchy.svg)

# Searchy

 By [livecanvas](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dopewp/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/searchy.zip)

 * [Details](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/searchy/)

## Description

The Purpose: allowing your users to search differently

_Ajaxed search engines_
 Whenever a large amount of items is available, be it houses
for rent or computer spare parts, providing your users with a **fast, structured,
faceted search** can be one thousand times more efficient, rather than letting your
visitors sink into hundreds of web pages, This tool does not replace or try to extend
the build in textual search feature of WordPress; it aims to provide a quick bootstrap
to an ajaxed search engine, demonstrating how easy it can be to turn your website
into a powerful search tool, without installing a huge and bloated code.

It is easy to hack and to extend at your will.
 You can read here the original article
about why [Searchy](http://www.dopewp.com/searchy/) was built.

### Main Features

Let your users search combining different criterias: Filter by name, category, tag,
or custom field (=1).
 Sort results by date, name or custom field (numeric)

### Typical usage

Searchy is a customizable search engine composed of two elements: the **search filters**–
typically a filters column, and the **search results**.

Use the **searchy_filter** shortcode or the **built-in widget** to show the filters
column.
 Place the **searchy_results** shortcode in a WordPress page to show the
sort bar and the search results. Of course those go in square brackets in a chosen
Page. You can place them one after the other, having searchy_filter and searchy_results
close, Or get fancy building your custom layout, placing some **do_shortcode** calls
wherever you want.

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

e.g.

 1. Upload the plugin folder (“searchy) to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. In a WordPress Page, place the [searchy_filter] and the [searchy_results] to display
    your new search engine.
 4. View the Page, you should see something going on!
 5. A set of options is provided in the /wp-admin/ at the ** Settings > Searchy** options
    page.
 6. Study the code and the documentation to get wild.

## FAQ

  How do I get started?

Read the Installation section just before this one. It’s quite simple.

  How do I add the search by *custom fields* feature?

Let’s say your blog is about animals; let’s imagine you do flag animals that fly,
setting at 1 a custom field called **“can-fly”**.
 You may thus want to display 
as search criteria “can fly”: to achieve this, a set of options is provided in the/
wp-admin/ at the **Settings > Searchy** options page. Just add the custom field 
slug in the **Custom Fields in the Filter** textarea.

  How do I make the search engine look different?

Add your custom CSS, this plugin does not aim to solve this. It aims to blend in
naturally with your Theme.
 You can find some examples and demos here to have a 
[horizontal search](http://www.dopewp.com/searchy/standard-page-with-shortcodes/)

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Searchy” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ livecanvas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dopewp/)

[Translate “Searchy” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/searchy)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/searchy/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/searchy/), or subscribe to
the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/searchy/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/searchy/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First public release.

## Meta

 *  Version **1,0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/)
 * Tags
 * [ajax](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/ajax/)[category](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)
   [filter](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/filter/)[search](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)
   [tag](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/searchy/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ livecanvas ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dopewp/)

## Support

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