Part two of the three part series on Search and your WordPress blog.
This time I want to talk to you about a great little plugin on Addicted to New blog called the WordPress live search plugin.
This plugin does all of its work by letting your readers do a search on your blog without having to refresh the page. It can do this with the use of Ajax. Your readers can save a lot of time when they are performing searches on your blog. This is also a great way to increase not only the interactivity between the users and the blog, but also it will help make your WordPress blog have a richer Findability added to it. The reason it achieves this is because the search responses come to the reader instantly without loading a new page.
A thing to note is that this plugin needs the default WordPress search form still on your blog. If you have changed it all, especially the id attribute of the search form (searchform) or the search input box, this plugin will just not work. If you have changed it and you want to still use this, I suggest you add the code back for the original search.
It should be noted that to test this out, I had to install it on a default template that comes with WordPress to get it to work.
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