Title: Category Wise Search
Author: Shambhu Patnaik
Published: <strong>febrero 25, 2013</strong>
Last modified: marzo 26, 2019

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Search plugins

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/category-wise-search.svg)

# Category Wise Search

 By [Shambhu Patnaik](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shambhu-patnaik/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/category-wise-search.zip)

 * [Details](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/#installation)
 * [Development](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/)

## Description

Category Wise Search Widget plugin.You have option search specific category content.

**Features**

 * Search post category wise.
 * Set default category.
 * Exclude categories in search category field.
 * Exclude categories with child in search category field.

More detail : http://socialcms.wordpress.com/

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * screenshot-1.png : screen shot admin widgets section.

## Installation

 1. Upload the category-wise-search folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go Appearance => widgets section see **Category Wise Search**

## FAQ

N/A

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ad1cffbc524dd4e0c9525a182cf180970fc94cfcd313c78ad257eca9a7eb8d94?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great Search Tool](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-search-tool-2/)󠁿

 [insight69](https://profiles.wordpress.org/insight69/) chinero 2, 2020

Please keep the plugin up to date. It works extremely well and I appreciate your
efforts.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[GREAT!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-4639/)󠁿

 [RussiaCristiana](https://profiles.wordpress.org/russiacristiana/) setiembre 3,
2016

Simple and customizable for our library-site, althought we are new with wp. Hoping
it will be regularly implemented!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/fb7efbcd17ea24627f8ba663293b567b48ef082c06438d57bfd38480577b7fff?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works great and simple to use!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-and-simple-to-use-2/)󠁿

 [Dave](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dcutri500/) setiembre 3, 2016

Exactly what I needed: a search form that lets you search by category. This does
exactly what it says. I tried a few others which didn’t work, but this one is perfect
🙂

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Category Wise Search” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Shambhu Patnaik ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shambhu-patnaik/)

[Translate “Category Wise Search” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/category-wise-search)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/category-wise-search/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/category-wise-search/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-wise-search/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/category-wise-search/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.3

 * Add exclude category with its childs option in category list

#### 1.2.1

 * fix category display order.

#### 1.2

 * Add exclude category option in category list.

#### 1.1

 * Add default select option

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.3**
 *  Last updated **7 anyos ago**
 *  Active installations **500+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.9 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.1.22**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/)
 * Tags
 * [search](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search/)[search by category](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/search-by-category/)
   [widget](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widget/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://arg.wordpress.org/plugins/category-wise-search/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.8 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  5 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ Shambhu Patnaik ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/shambhu-patnaik/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/category-wise-search/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://socialcms.wordpress.com/)