Search Categories

Category Search adds the option to display category names in search results. Useful when you have a lot of categories and you want to display them as a part of search results.

Search Categories

Screenshot from emuhq.com using this plugin

Download

Download: Category Search

Installation & Usage

Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
Use the Options page to change your options
Use the following code in your theme template most probably Search Results (search.php)
```
<?php if (class_exists('CategorySearch')) $CategorySearch->Show(); ?>
```
Also, CategorySearch is fully compatible with wp_list_categories()

This mean you can further tweak the category search results by adding additional parameters. Example:
```
$CategorySearch->Show('orderby=count');
```

Changelog

v1.0:

Initial Release

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Echo 06.19.09 / 10pm

How do you make it so that it'll also search the category description instead of just the category title?
sam 05.29.09 / 6am

will this plugin work with 2.7.1?
Kristen 04.24.09 / 9pm

One more question Vladimir - If there are no matching categories in the search results, how can I display "no matches"?

I had the same question as David...is there a way to do this?

Thanks!
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David 02.12.09 / 10pm

One more question Vladimir - If there are no matching categories in the search results, how can I display "no matches"?
David 02.12.09 / 9pm

Beautiful Vladimir! I've been searching for solution like this forever. I'll test for a while and then make donation.

Question - How can I make multiple search results templates with this? For example, one template would show just your category names as results. Other template would show usual post results.
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[...] 　　Category Search，讲搜索范围扩大到分类名称。　　WordPress的搜索结果是针对文章及其相关内容（所有的Blog程序都是这样的），这款插件让分类名称也加入到搜索结果中来。如果你的分类很多（很多很多），或者你把分类当Tag用，这款插件会对你的来访者很有用。 [...]
David Potter 06.24.08 / 6pm

Excellent. Thanks for that. I'll download this and check it out.
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Vladimir 06.24.08 / 11am

Screenshot uploaded I hope it speaks more then 1000 words :)
David Potter 06.24.08 / 5am

Your plugin sounds interesting but I don't understand enough of how it works to spend the time to download and integrate it. If you provided some examples that might help.

Thanks,
David