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Advanced Post Search

Description

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Advanced Post Search is a WordPress plugin for anyone who needs an advanced search for posts (or custom posts) in WordPress admin.
Easily find posts by performing complex queries directly from the posts list and using specific filters for each field. It works with any post type and custom post type.

Advanced Post Search lets you search posts by any post attribute; search by:

  • Post Title
  • Post Content
  • Post Publish (date or date interval)
  • Post Last Modified (date or date interval)
  • Post Status
  • Post Password
  • Post Author
  • Post Excerpt
  • Post Slug

Specify which comparison operator you want to use; each field has its own comparison operators, according to the field type: for example, in text fields you can perform a strict or a like search.

You can manage search preferences from Advanced Post Search » Views in order to show/hide any search field for each post type.

Advanced Post Search PRO

Unlock extra features by upgrading Advanced Post Search to PRO version:
https://www.advancedcustomsearch.com/

  • Advanced Custom Fields support
  • Search posts by any of ACF custom fields (text, images, etc.)

Tested on

  • Microsoft Windows – Google Chrome
  • Microsoft Windows – IE9+ / Edge
  • Mac OS X – Firefox
  • Mac OS X – Google Chrome

Screenshots

  • Main search form
  • Options page

Installation

  1. Upload advanced-post-search to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. Click on the new menu item Advanced Post Search and configure your search form for any post type!

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload advanced-post-search to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
  3. Click on the new menu item Advanced Post Search and configure your search form for any post type!
Q. How do I use the plugin?

A. The main search form is in the posts list (also available for pages or custom posts) and can be accessed by the “Advanced Search” dropdown on the top right of the screen.

Q. How do I make a search?

A. In the “Advanced Search” form you can fill one or more fields with the desired search terms, then press the “Search” button to perform the search.

Q. How do I change comparison operator?

A. Every search field has different comparison types depending on field type: in a date field you can search values after or before a date or between two specific dates.

Q. How do I manage what fields are showed in the search form?

A. In the Views page you have a table showing registered post types; for each post type you can choose what fields you want to show in the search form by checking the corresponding checkbox.

Reviews

Hamal 24, 2017
Hi, this tool is excelent and save my life! My client´s website was infected with a lot of SQL post injections that points to sex and viagra´s dealers. Even Sucuri and Wordfence plugins and other online tools didn´t find any malware. With this simple tool, I could find HREFs and “POSITION: Absolute” tags, words, filter by dates, etc. Even with few users, this author deserves 5-stars for this small, unknown, but EXCELENT tool.
Aqırap 8, 2016
This admin plugin allows to search posts by authors and others advanced criteria. Works as advertized.
Miyzan 3, 2016
Faced with having to categorize thousands of WooCommerce products based on text in the product name, but that same text was present in the product description. The core admin search would return all results, all the time. This plugin allowed us to filter only on the product name field. That made fast easy work of the task!
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Contributors & Developers

“Advanced Post Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Changelog

1.0.1

  • Added new search fields: author, slug, excerpt, content
  • Bug fixing

1.0.0

  • Advanced Post Search.