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Faceted Search

by AndrewUlrich · Search

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This plugin will create widgets that you can use to conduct faceted searches using the categories or tags on your site.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 60 average across 606 Search plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

13.7K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.99★

Rating (adjusted)

4.3★ raw · 3 reviews

+12%

58

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

32 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5215 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+12% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 141

5830d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Faceted Search · #24435 you Media Library Assist · #613 Post Tags and Catego · #1366 Visual Term Descript · #1507

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

2.9Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 1,387 observations

20Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
1 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
3.4.4
Last updated
14.3y ago
Added
2010-08-02 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.3.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ mtraps
    10.4y ago

    I have this plugin combined with a search bar plugin. Every time I do a search using my categories it pulls up all the right results but in the search bar the words “Faceted Search” appear. Any idea how to remove this?

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  2. ★★★★★ Carbo Queen
    12.4y ago

    Thank you very much for this plugin. I had feared I had to modify it because I didn’t want an all inclusive or all exclusive search, but finally the “smart search” was exactly what I was looking for. Only two drawbacks : – in the CSS file there are not a lot of options that you can custom; – every time you add a new category you have to order everything again.

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  3. ★★★★★ F l a n k e r
    13.6y ago

    It need to be CSS customized, but it works very well for my web site!

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-13 30+ → 20+ down after 334 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-13 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2025-09-10 30+ → 40+ up after 29 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-12 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-11 30+ → 40+ up after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-06 40+ → 30+ down after 279 days in tier
  7. 2024-10-31 50+ → 40+ down after 7 days in tier
  8. 2024-10-24 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier

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Faceted Search: 20+ active installs, 4.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/faceted-search