Search Widget and WP REST Server for Toolset Types

This search widget can search Toolset Types custom posts by the value of Toolset Types custom fields, custom taxonomies and parent/child relationships. It is designed to be used with the Toolset Types plugin and makes use of Toolset Types’ proprietary database format to generate user friendly field names and field values. The widget uses user friendly substitutions for the actual values in the database, e.g. post title is substituted for post id in parent/child fields. The selected posts can be displayed as a standard WordPress list of posts, a spreadsheet of posts with their custom fields or a gallery of featured images.

Version 1.3 supports a single-page application mode where the search results returned by an interactive AJAX request populates a Backbone.js collection of models w…