WP Remote Site Search

Description

WP Remote Site Search is a search plugin for WordPress that returns any WordPress site’s data using WP REST API.

Basic Usage

Activate the WP Remote Site Search plugin
Add the shortcode [wp_remote_site_search] to a page or something

Options

Here’s a list of shortcodes currently available in the WP Remote Site Search plugin.

1.remote_url="https://example.com"

URL from where you want to fetch the information
The remote site should have WordPress 4.7 or higher or Rest API (v2) plugin installed to get the search results.

2.title="How can we help?"

Title for the search box

3.category_id="1,2"

You can also pass "category_id1,category_id2" to search multiple posts from multiple categories.

4.sub_categories="true"

You can also get all results from categories (category_id1, category_id2) and their respective subcategories by setting sub_categories="true".

5.placeholder="Enter a search term."

The text displayed in the search box placeholder. Default is "Search...".

6.type = "books"

Default type is posts,
You can add custom post type also.

7.max_results="50"

Total Number of results you want to display.
(default max_results is 30)

8.html_input = "<button> Get In Touch!</button>"

Append html after all results get displyed.

Example:

[wp_remote_site_search remote_url="https://example.com" category_id="1,2" sub_categories="true" type="books" title="How can we help?" placeholder="Have a question? Enter a search term." max_results="30" html_input="<button>Get In Touch!</button>"]

Credits

WP Live Search
Licenses: GNU GPL, Version 2 (or later)
Credits https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-search-live/

Installation

1. Navigate to ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard
2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area
3. Select wp-remote-site-search.zip from your computer
4. Click ‘Install Now’
5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard

FAQ

1. How it works? =
   It’s a shortcode. Add [wp_remote_site_search remote_url=”https://example.com”] to a page/post. See above for some options.

2. What is required for this to work? =
   The remote site should have WordPress 4.7 or higher or Rest API (v2) plugin installed to get the search results.

Reviews

fast

wasanajones March 15, 2019 1 reply

pulled results very quickly

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0.6

• Improvement: Compatibility to WordPress 6.6.

1.0.5

• Fix: Enclosed data attribute in quotes to prevent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

1.0.4

• Improvement: Compatibility to WordPress 5.6.

1.0.3

• Improvements: Enqueue scripts only where shortcode is used.

1.0.2

• Search result design improvements.

1.0.0

• Initial release