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josantonius/wp-search-inside
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1.2.1(8y ago)402GPL-2.0+CSSPHP ^5.3 || ^7.0

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Search Inside WordPress Plugin
==============================

[](#search-inside-wordpress-plugin)

[![License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/8a0d2cbae736ca391ac94507893ced60105cb1f3244da6a02338e25e8acb8a1e/68747470733a2f2f706f7365722e707567782e6f72672f6a6f73616e746f6e6975732f77702d7365617263682d696e736964652f6c6963656e7365)](https://packagist.org/packages/josantonius/wp-search-inside)

[Versión en español](README-ES.md)

Easily search text within your pages or blog posts.

[![image](resources/banner-1544x500.png)](resources/banner-1544x500.png)

---

- [Requirements](#requirements)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Images](#images)
- [Tests](#tests)
- [Sponsor](#Sponsor)
- [License](#license)

---

With Search Inside now you can search within your posts or pages.

**There are different ways to display the search engine**

- The search engine appears when you press any alphabetic or numeric key.
- Appended on a HTML tag.
- Inserted from a shortcode.

**Two search modes**

- Look for complete sentences.
- Search words separated by spaces.

Don't forget to turn on case sensitive mode if you need it!

**Search Inside has full support for UTF-8 encoding and can search in any language.**

 [ ![](resources/thumbnail-english-video.png) ](resources/search-inside-wordpress-plugin-english.mp4 "Search Inside")

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

This WordPress plugin is supported by **PHP versions 5.6** or higher and is compatible with **HHVM versions 3.0** or higher.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can download this plugin from the [official repository](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/search-inside/) in WordPress.

From your WordPress dashboard:

1. Visit 'Plugins > Add New'
2. Search for 'Search Inside'
3. Activate Search Inside from your Plugins page.

From WordPress.org:

1. Download [Search Inside](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/search-inside/).
2. Upload the 'search-inside' directory to your '/wp-content/plugins/' directory, using your favorite method (ftp, sftp, scp, etc...).
3. Activate Search Inside from your Plugins page.

Once Activated:

Go to `Search Inside > Options` to configure the plugin.

Images
------

[](#images)

[![image](resources/screenshot-1.png)](resources/screenshot-1.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-2.png)](resources/screenshot-2.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-3.png)](resources/screenshot-3.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-7.png)](resources/screenshot-7.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-8.png)](resources/screenshot-8.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-9.png)](resources/screenshot-9.png)[![image](resources/screenshot-10.png)](resources/screenshot-10.png)

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

To run [tests](tests) you just need [composer](http://getcomposer.org/download/) and to execute the following:

```
git clone https://github.com/josantonius/wp-search-inside.git

cd wp-search-inside

bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root '' localhost latest

composer install

```

Run unit tests with [PHPUnit](https://phpunit.de/):

```
composer phpunit

```

Run [WordPress](https://github.com/WordPress-Coding-Standards/WordPress-Coding-Standards/) code standard tests with [PHPCS](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer):

```
composer phpcs

```

Run [PHP Mess Detector](https://phpmd.org/) tests to detect inconsistencies in code style:

```
composer phpmd

```

Run all previous tests:

```
composer tests

```

Sponsor
-------

[](#sponsor)

If this project helps you to reduce your development time, [you can sponsor me](https://github.com/josantonius#sponsor) to support my open source work 😊

License
-------

[](#license)

This repository is licensed under the [GPL-2.0+ License](LICENSE).

Copyright © 2017-2022, [Josantonius](https://github.com/josantonius#contact)

###  Health Score

27

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LowBetter than 49% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~49 days

Recently: every ~77 days

Total

8

Last Release

2997d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![josantonius](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18104336?v=4)](https://github.com/josantonius "josantonius (46 commits)")

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###  Code Quality

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