Advanced Admin Search

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Older reviewers loved how well it finds anything in the admin, while the two most recent ones say its bundled CSS rewrites table styles across admin and front end, and both uninstalled over it.

1. ★★★★★ jdeanwilson

   3.3y ago

   Installing this plugin will redefine your table styles, messing up the design of your website. Plugin should not be redefining basic tags like <tr> to support its search results page. I had to uninstall it.

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2. ★★★★★ broomfish

   3.8y ago

   works well and does what it says, makes meta fields searchable which was great. Unfortunately the CSS file included reformats the look of admin and front end which is annoying and unnecessary and makes my products page messy as all the column widths are changed. i tried to clean it but then gave up and uninstalled to regain the correct display and will look for a better replacement

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3. ★★★★★ dolceremy

   4.2y ago

   search anything you want, this plugin finds it! Great developer!

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4. ★★★★★ nick6352683

   5.7y ago

   Does the job as described – no complains with this one !

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5. ★★★★★ pieder

   5.7y ago

   Great plugin, but we want to see all the results please. When is there coming a page for all results? Thanks!

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6. ★★★★★ aleangelico01

   6.3y ago

   It works as expected, hence the 5 stars rating. In the wishlist I would like an option to configure or filter where to look, if in pages, posts, sliders, etc. But anyway, it is great.

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7. ★★★★★ GoddessNYC

   6.6y ago

   This plugin is a gem! I am cleaning up a website that was maintained by several people before me, so there are all kinds of things that I wouldn’t know to look for in places they shouldn’t be. I used this plugin to find the images that had http:// URLs that were not being caught by the SSL content fixer plugin and then globally replaced them with https:// – everything works beautifully now! No more shield-warnings in the browsers! >>> NOTE: Be sure that your SSL compliance is in order BEFORE doing a global replace as described above. I am going to use this plugin to clean up another site that has over 500 images that are difficult to find with media management plugins, etc. Thank you for a good idea plugin!

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8. ★★★★★ andymiller

   6.7y ago

   SFAIK this is the only plugin that will enable me to find a link or a shortcode (etc) in a page/post and then let me open the page/post and edit it. Really handy. It’s good to see that the developers have got plans to take it further. This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by andymiller.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Advanced Admin Search <= 1.1.2 - Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2022-05-17 CVE-2022-0626 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.1.2 Patched in 1.1.6

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-07-29 600+ → 500+ down after 183 days in tier
2. 2026-01-27 700+ → 600+ down after 172 days in tier
3. 2025-08-08 800+ → 700+ down after 4 days in tier
4. 2025-08-04 700+ → 800+ up after 4 days in tier
5. 2025-07-31 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2025-07-30 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2025-07-28 800+ → 700+ down after 175 days in tier
8. 2025-02-03 900+ → 800+ down after 65 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Admin Menu Search 3K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag C
• Advanced All in One Admin Search by WP Spotlight 900+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag C
• G GeoTheme Advance Search Widget 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
• WP Dashboard Quick Search 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
• Spotlight Search – Find Anything, Anywhere 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
• Admin Menu Search (AMS) — installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D

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