Forked from the popular WordPress Search Everything plugin, Combined Search allows you to search all available content types on your web site.
As of April 2026, Combined Search is a WordPress search plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.7K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.9+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: String locator.
In today’s world, no WordPress Site Administrator should be without Combined Search. This uniquely formulated WordPress Plugin has been developed to allow Site Administrators like you to search for content that could not previously be searched for – like comments, category names, descriptions, custom taxonomies, and more.
You can configure Combined Search to your heart’s content, enabling it to search pages, attachments, excerpts, drafts, tags, comments, metadata and (most) everything in-between. Need to exclude certain pages and posts? Done.
Getting started is easy. Install via the WordPress dashboard or manually by downloading the plugin and adding it to your wp-content/plugins/ folder. Visit the Plugins page in your WordPress administration area, and click “activate”. Configure it to y…
| WordPress | 4.9+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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