Title: Custom searches using shortcode
Last modified: June 22, 2023

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# Custom searches using shortcode

 *  [wordmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordmax/)
 * (@wordmax)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-searches-using-shortcode/)
 * Hi. Nice plugin! We are using it to search for custom posts (feed items) created
   by wp rss aggregator plugin ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-rss-aggregator)).
   It works great to search all items, but we want to make multiple different custom
   search using [shortcode] so for example we only want the search box to be used
   on the Business News page and it would only search in the feed items Business
   News source. Maybe something like `[wpdreams_ajaxsearchlite feedsource_ID="3"]`
 * So we can put that search on the Biz news page and it will not show results from
   other topics like sports, health, etc when user searches it’s just business news
   headlines.
 * Please advise if any ideas or any documentation of advanced custom search bars
   that can be created using shortcode variables.
 * Thanks!
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   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [wpdreams](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdreams/)
 * (@wpdreams)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-searches-using-shortcode/#post-16843018)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you very much for your kind words!
 * I’m afraid this is not possible within the free version. Usually I suggest a 
   custom code or anything if I can, but in this case there is no way around it 
   I’m afraid. This Lite version is designed for a single search instance/shortcode.
 * All the best,
   Ernest
 *  Thread Starter [wordmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordmax/)
 * (@wordmax)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-searches-using-shortcode/#post-16843880)
 * Ok. Thank you!
 * Would the paid version of ajax search plugin allow creation of multiple different
   search shortcodes so we could only limit search results on for example Business
   News page, to specified feed ID’s or feed categories? So instead of search results
   showing all feed items from other news topics it would only show feed items from
   the wprss plugin category ‘business’ or specified wprss feed IDs?
 * For clarification please see current support thread regarding this at WPRSS plugin
   support page:
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-search-only-for-items-from-single-feed-source/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-use-search-only-for-items-from-single-feed-source/)
 * Ajax search screenshots wprss custom field options:
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/6lNcypD)
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/8X5hUvt)
    -  This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by [wordmax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordmax/).

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