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Product Category Dropdowns v1.0.0

Displays product categories as dependent drop-down selects.

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 177.0K+ active
Tested up to: WP 6.8.12
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Oct 12, 2025
Downloads: 7.7K+ downloads

Category Wise Search v1.3

Category Wise Search Widget plugin.You have option search specific category content.

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 8.8K+ active
Tested up to: WP 5.1.28
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Mar 26, 2019
Downloads: 9.8K+ downloads

Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress v2.0.5

Fast, intelligent, and fully customizable search for your site.

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 9.4K+ active
Tested up to: WP 5.8.19
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Sep 15, 2021
Downloads: 15.3K+ downloads

Advance Ajax Live Search v1.0

Search By Author-Tag-Cats-Date And Keyword.

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 140.6K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.9.35
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Sep 21, 2018
Downloads: 6.5K+ downloads

Keyspider Site Search Plugin for WordPress v1.1.0

Relevant, intelligent, and fully customizable site search for your WordPress website.

Rating: ★ 4.8
Active installations: 21.4K+ active
Tested up to: WP 6.0.18
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Aug 26, 2022
Downloads: 10.8K+ downloads

Swiftype Custom Posts v0.3

It allows to index the custom post types, taxonomies with custom fields easily.

Rating: ★ 4.9
Active installations: 127.5K+ active
Tested up to: WP 4.3.34
Requires PHP: PHP —
Updated: Updated Oct 30, 2015
Downloads: 7.8K+ downloads

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