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Building a Custom “Search By Category” WordPress Plugin: New Premium Tutorial

on Jul 15th 2009 with 13 comments

With an ever increasing amount of content building on your WordPress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category. Become a member!

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  • http://www.texturelovers.com Max Stanworth

    Im so tempted to get a subscription for this! looks a brilliant tut

  • http://www.benblogged.com Ben Blogged

    Very nice!

  • http://evanriley.xiaimix.com Evan Riley

    Amazing tutorial, looking over it right now! Thanks!

  • http://sffarlenn.net Laneth

    Very, very cool – thanks!

    I imagine some of the stuff ye go into with this will help people understand a little about plugin development?

    I am so glad I’m a member – Here’s a toast to the Tuts+ Network, arriving in my life at the -perfect- time!

  • no thanks

    Sorry, but I just don’t agree with paying for tutorials which relate to free software.
    You get WordPress for free, make your tutorials relating to it free. Fair’s fair.

  • http://www.dsaportfolio.com.br/ Diego SA

    Oh come on! It’s not fair it’s plus tutorial. Just because it’s so useful.

  • Ryan

    I have a tuts+ account and i am locked out…even i can’t view it. Could an administrator please help me with this. I have done the forgot password form, which doesn’t work by the way!, signed up and placed a help ticket even tried to get help on twitter. Someone please help. I want to access what i paid for!

  • Peter

    Can any one else smell the fishyness around here or is it just me?

    http://fire-studios.com/blog/search-by-category

    Serioulsy guys.

  • http://omdimas.com sinopsis film

    nice touch ! awesome and great idea plugins … thx a lot Jonathan

  • http://www.slice2u.com Slice2U

    great plugin tutorial, thx Jonathan!

  • http://www.waylaydesign.com Selina

    Thanks for the tip Peter. You can find the plugin on WordPress here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-by-category/

  • http://www.google.com/ Lyza

    And to think I was going to talk to someone in psroen about this.

  • http://www.topandroidapplication.com karthimx

    Great search plugin.