Building a Custom

Building a Custom “Search By Category” Wordpress Plugin: New Plus Tutorial

Jul 15th in News by Jonathan Wolfe

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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Author: Jonathan Wolfe

I'm a Front-end Developer by trade and have a profound love for Wordpress, but I also work with User Interfaces, teaching, and quantum mechanics. Did I mention I love Wordpress?

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    Max Stanworth July 15th

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

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    Ben Blogged July 15th

    Very nice!

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    Evan Riley July 15th

    Amazing tutorial, looking over it right now! Thanks!

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    Laneth July 15th

    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!

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    no thanks July 16th

    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.

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    Diego SA July 16th

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

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    Ryan July 17th

    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!

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    Peter September 14th

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

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

    Serioulsy guys.

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