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Plugin Description
EDD Ajax Search is a very easy-to-use plugin for Easy Digital Downloads. You just need to install it and it’s ready to work.
EDD Ajax Search creates a simple search form that shows you instant search results, by suggesting you products from your Easy Digital Downloads store that match your searching criteria.
Just start typing in the search input and a list of useful suggestion will be shown and the more you write, the more accurate search results will be. At that point you will only need to choose what you want.
It is very useful to assist your users while they are trying to search any product in your website. They can just enter a keyword for the product they are looking for and EDD Ajax Search will spare them the nuisance to browse in a specific or all product categories one at a time.
It works just like Google suggestions, but this tool will be available on your Easy Digital Downloads site and will be using your database.
Features of EDD Ajax Search
- Shortcode to show the search form in anywhere (includes a shortcode generator).
- Widget to show the search form in any sidebar.
- Categories dropdown to filter search to any specific category (with option to all).
- Automatically caching results to speed up all searches.
- Options to customize the search form:
- Set minimum number of characters to search.
- Set maximum number of results.
- Search input placeholder.
- Show/Hide categories dropdown.
- Show/Hide submit button.
- Submit button label.
If you want to boost EDD Ajax Search, you can also visit our page and explore the official page of the premium version, which includes all the following features to improve at the best your Easy Digital Downloads store search.
Premium features of EDD Ajax Search
- All features of the free version of EDD Ajax Search
- Full control to customize categories dropdown:
- Sorting options.
- Hide children categories.
- Hide empty categories.
- Hide any specific category option (included all).
- Post types dropdown to filter search to any specific post type (with option to all).
- Full control to customize post types dropdown:
- Show/Hide post types dropdown.
- Hide any specific post type option (included all).
- Full control to customize the search form:
- Drag and drop search form builder.
- Visual controls to match with your theme style (colors, borders, styles).
- Extend search in product excerpt.
- Extend search in product content.
- Extend search in product categories.
- Extend search in product tags.
- Extend search by vendors.
- Set how search may work with multiple words.
- Extend search to multiple post metas and set how should compare individually.
- View more button when there are more results to show
- Full control to customize the search results:
- Visual controls to match with your theme style (colors, borders, styles).
- Options to customize product results output:
- Drag and drop template builder.
- Template divided in parts (thumbnail, title, author, price, excerpt, categories, tags and purchase button).
- Show/Hide any template part.
- Thumbnail size
- Excerpt length
- Options to force or disable plugin css resources.
- Full control to customize cache functionality.
- Ability to clear the plugin cache
- Latest searches reports
- Overwritable templates from your theme (form, fields, results and results parts).
- Ability to set template for specific post type result or to all post types.
For a more detailed list of options and features of EDD Ajax Search, please read the official documentation.
Compatibility with other plugins
EDD Ajax Search has been tested with the following plugins:
Nevertheless, it could be compatible with many other Easy Digital Download plugins that have not been tested yet. If you want to inform us about compatibility with other plugins, please, email us.
Suggestions
If you have suggestions about how to improve EDD Ajax Search, you can write us so we can bundle them into EDD Ajax Search.
Translators
Available Languages
If you have created your own language pack, or have an update for an existing one, you can send gettext PO and MO file
use so we can bundle it into EDD Ajax Search languages.
Screenshots
Frontend: EDD Ajax Search output example
Admin – Tsunoa -> EDD Ajax Search
