Easily create a dynamic ajax search engine for your blog.
As of April 2026, Simple Ajax Search is a WordPress ajax plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 5.2.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: zipaddr-jp.
With this plugin you can create very easily a dynamic ajax search engine of your blog.
For setup this search engine use the followings [shortcodes]:
Write this shortcode where you want the input components for the dynamic search, and you get:
* One input field where write words to search into the blog with WordPress engine.
* Several categories to filter the search depending what you checked. By default all checked.
If you want you have some attributes to customize this shortcode:
* [sas-input blank="true"] if you want to open in new window each link of the results. It’s false by default.
* [sas-input dashicons="dashicons-admin-post"] this is an example to change the icon of each link.
* [sas-input headings="#29AAE3"] this is the color by default for headings, but you ca…
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 5.3.21 |
| PHP | 5.2.4+ required |
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