Fire Studios

With an ever increasing amount of content building on your Wordpress site, your users will inevitably need to search your site to find that specific helpful article from way back. To help narrow the search results, I’m going to show you how to code a plugin that allows the user to search based on category.

This is a Nettuts +Tut.

Search by Category allows your visitor to select which category they want to search your blog inside of. This allows visitors to find the exact article they're looking for and helps increase viewer loyalty.

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Not that long ago I released my Wordpress Plugin Templates and they were greatly received by you all. Through this wide spread attraction, it was inevitable that a flaw would be found and some improvements be suggested. So I took these suggestions and an idea I had, and updated these templates to allow for less editing of the template files and faster plugin development all around.

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Wordpress plugins have become my new addiction in the WP environment, thus I've noticed that I'm using the same few beginning steps every time. This led me to create a template file so that I just open, edit, and continue on my merry way of coding my plugin. I'm posting these templates for free use no matter what you're working on. I'll even be a nice guy and let you repost them as your own.

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Google Syntax Highlighter may be Wordpress' most popular syntax highlighter plugin, but it's not the most efficient. With plenty of extra JavaScript and sloppy PHP writing, it's quite the bloat-ware if left unchecked. So here's 2 fixes showing how to put GSH on a diet and still get all the features of the plugin.

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