Best post search plugins for WordPress
The most popular post search plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. AJAX Post Search and Filter leads with 70+ active installs, ahead of Filter Posts With List (10+) and Custom Search Results (10+). All 8 plugins tagged “post search” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 8 post search plugins
- 1.
AJAX Post Search and FilterThe most installed post search plugin, with 70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Filter Posts With List10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
- 3.
Custom Search Results10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 4.
Spotlight Search10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 5.
Fancy Search10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30.
- 6.
HoundFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 7.
Ajax Search Bar by DGAshuFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
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Findit Post Search and FilterFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 8 plugins tagged “post search”
AJAX Post Search and Filter
Down in the last 7 days:49#18,364by Nirav Kaneriya2 months ago
Lightning-fast AJAX post filtering — no page reload. Checkbox, radio and select filters, date range, sort, exclude/include and RTL support.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Filter Posts With List
Down in the last 7 days:97#31,873by iflairwebtechnologies1 year ago
Filter Posts with list by iFlair plugin is help you to list out default post and custom posts and filter out post base on its category and tags.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Search Results
Down in the last 7 days:70#32,209by quodlibet10 years ago
Custom Search Results helps you put the important results first on searches, shows what users are searching for on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Spotlight Search
#32,330by Liton Arefin4 months ago
Find posts, users, plugins, themes, media and comments. Manage WordPress updates from a single search bar on the dashboard and frontend.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Fancy Search
Up in the last 7 days:5,739#41,776by vanduy9910 years ago
Fancy Search - is a complete and powerful search engine for fully flexible WordPress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hound
Up in the last 7 days:4,374#55,703by Themexplosion2 years ago
Search all posts and pages of a WordPress website instantly. Get search result as you keep typing your keyword.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ajax Search Bar by DGAshu
#64,383by dgashu4 years ago
Ajax Search Bar by DGAshu is my first plugin contributed to the wordpress community.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Findit Post Search and Filter
#74,339by Xiangxu1 year ago
A clean, responsive AJAX-powered search plugin for WordPress posts with keyword highlighting, category/tag filtering, and load more pagination.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day