Search In Place

Product type: Wordpress Plugin

Search In Place

Installation

To install Search in Place, follow these steps:

1. Download and unzip the plugin file.
2. Upload the search-in-place folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your server.
3. Activate the plugin through the menu option "Plugins" in your WordPress dashboard.

Product type: Wordpress Plugin

Search In Place

Search in Place settings

Search in Place has several setup options to simplify searches and personalize results. Among the setup possibilities you will find:

Apply to the search box inserted as shortcode only: Applies the search in place behavior only to the search boxes inserted through the shortcode.

Enter the number of posts to display: limits the number of elements in the dynamic search results. (Enter a whole number).

Enter a minimum number of characters to start a search: The dynamic search will be activated only when the entered search term equals or exceeds the number of characters specified in this setup field.

Connection operator: Selects the operator to apply to the search terms.

Posts/Pages common data (title, content): Allows to decide if search the terms into posts' titles and contents.

Posts/Pages metadata (additional data of articles): Allows to search the terms in metadata associated to the articles.

Elements to display: defines the elements that will be shown for each dynamic search result. The post title will always be visible, but the featured image, the author, the publication date, and the post summary can be visible or not depending on this setting option.

Post type: allows to enter additional post types for searching. Some plugins include new post types to treat products, catalogs or any other new element.

Taxonomies: allows to include taxonomies as criteria for searching. Some post types have associated taxonomies that help to describe or identify the post.

Exclude posts/pages: enter the IDs of posts/page to exclude from searching, separated by comma.

Select the Date Format: allows to select the format of publication date to be shown in the dynamic search results.

Enter the number of characters for post summaries: if you choose to display post summaries in search results, you can use this option to limit the amount of characters in these summaries.

Background color: Select the background color of results box.

Border color: Select the border color of results box.

Label text color: Select the text color of labels.

Label background color: Select the background color of labels section. The label's sections is a gradient.

Background color of active item: Select the background color of item when the mouse is set over it.

In Search Page/Highlight the terms in result: Check this option if you wish to highlight the terms that were searched, in the dynamic search results.

In Search Page/Identify the posts type in search result: if this option is checked, each search result will be identified by type (post or page).

In Resulting Pages/Highlight the terms in result: Check this option if you wish to highlight the terms that were searched, in the resulting pages.

Google Autocomplete

Enabling autocomplete: Recommend terms based on the texts the user is typing in the search box.

Max keyword length: Maximum length of recommended terms.

Max keywords count: Maximum number of recommended terms.

Suggest terms starting with the typed text: recommends only terms beginning with the text typed by the user.

Recommended before uninstalling

Tick the checkbox for deleting all settings from the database. Recommended before uninstalling the plugin.

Inserting Additional Search Boxes

The plugin applies the search in place behavior to the search boxeas in the website. It is not required any user action. However, it is possible to insert additional search boxes using the search shorcode (for example, if you need a search in current page box)

The shortcode to insert an additional search boxes has the structure: [search-in-place-form]

Through the shortcode it is possible to restrict the search to the content of current page, including the in_current_page attribute: [search-in-place-form in_current_page="1"]

The plugin is distributed with specific modules for inserting the shortcode in the most popular pages builders

Gutenberg

Elementor

Siteorigin Page Builer

For other pages builders it is possible to insert the shortcode directly.