Open Search
Create an OpenSearch Document for your blog.
5(4 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Open Search is a WordPress osd plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Top alternative: OpenSearch.
5/54 reviews
200active installs
11K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
The plugin creates an OpenSearch Document for your blog.
It supports Google Chromes “Tab to Search” and “search_provider” WebExtension, Firefox’ “OpenSearch plugins”, Safaris “Quick Website Search”, and “custom searches” for Microsofts Edge browser.
From the spec:
Search clients can use OpenSearch description documents to learn about the public interface of a search engine. These description documents contain parameterized URL templates that indicate how the search client should make search requests. Search engines can use the OpenSearch response elements to add search metadata to results in a variety of content formats.
Other integrations and extensions:
- Extension links for HTML, Atom and RSS
- Autodiscovery via XRDS-Simp…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
4.1.3
- update plugin structure
4.1.1
- fix PHP deprecated: strstr(): Passing null to parameter
4.1.0
- added “search_provider” WebExtension support
4.0.1
- fix broken XML output
4.0.0
- modernize code
- added fil…
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