Search in Place

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Directory rank vs rivals

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ jmwilcox

   2mo ago

   I’m not one to leave reviews but I love this plugin. It’s EASY to setup, has some options to customize it, but most of all I LOVE that you can search within a page and clicking on a drop down result will take to you the highlighted result on the page. It is exactly what I was looking for. Most search plugins take you to a new page that displays your search results and then takes you to the page with the result you click on but then you have to look through the page to find the result. This plugin keeps it all on the same page and takes you to the spot on the page with the result. It’s like an amped up and professional looking ctrl + F search within the page. Really great for a help center, knowledge base, or extended FAQ. Well done! This topic was modified 2 weeks, 2 days ago by jmwilcox.

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2. ★★★★★ videobob

   6mo ago

   I use this plugin on my website. I like how it makes a list of answers with a short sentence containing what is being searched for.

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3. ★★★★★ berrec

   8mo ago

   Quick and easy to configure, works great.

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4. ★★★★★ patz2015

   11mo ago

   Since I installed this plugin, I never had problems associated with it. A five-star rating is well-deserved. Way to go…

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5. ★★★★★ Bub

   12mo ago

   This works exactly how I wanted. I have a book I converted to a 10k line html file page for my site. I set up this search tool for use against this page to allow students to traverse it. Works Great!!

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6. ★★★★★ winfieldcereno

   1.0y ago

   almost perfect mate. cheers!

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7. ★★★★★ Дмитрий Орлов

   1.8y ago

   Отличный плагин! Спасибо!

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8. ★★★★★ sheermohd

   1.9y ago

   Simply Awesome plugin

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.5.4 Improves the Elementor integration mdule. 1.5.4
2. — Version 1.5.3 Improves the integration with WordPress 7.0. 1.5.3
3. — Version 1.5.2 Offers the ability to pass specific selectors, restricting the search to designated elements on the page when the search box shortcode is configured to search within the current page. 1.5.2
4. — Version 1.5.1 Enhances the term suggestion module to provide suggestions directly from both the website and Google. 1.5.1
5. — Version 1.5.0 Modifies the search in page module to support visual apostrophes and double quotation marks. 1.5.0
6. — Version 1.4.5 Fixed an issue with the search operator used for searching content on the current page. 1.4.5

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

1. Medium · 4.3 Search in Place <= 1.0.104 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Feedback Submission ↗
   2023-03-02 CVE-2023-26521 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.104 Patched in 1.0.105
2. Medium · 4.3 Search in Place <= 1.0.104 - Missing Authorization to Feedback Submission ↗
   2023-02-28 CVE-2023-26521 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.104 Patched in 1.0.105

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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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).

• SearchWP Live Ajax Search 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• Relevanssi Live Ajax Search 7K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• YMC Filter 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• WPC AJAX Search for WooCommerce 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
• S Search by ID 700+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• Search Live 600+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B

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Search in Place: 3K+ active installs, 4.9★ (64 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/search-in-place