PVTL Site Search

PVTL Site Search WordPress plugin that adds an admin-only tool to find published posts and pages whose body content contains a given search term. Useful for audits, migrations, or locating copy across custom post types without opening each item in the editor. Features - Admin menu — “Site Search” appears under the main admin menu (dashicon: search). - Capability — Only users who can manageoptions (typically Administrators) can access the screen. - Scope — All public post types, poststatus = publish, via posttype = any. - Matching — Case-insensitive search in postcontent only (not titles or meta). - Results — Permalink, post type, ID, occurrence count, contextual excerpts (~150 chars before/after each match) with the term highlighted, plus a textarea of plain URLs for copying. Requirements - WordPress 5.0 or higher (uses standard APIs; not formally version-gated in code). - PHP 8.0 or higher (see composer.json). Performance note Each search loads all published posts into memory (postsperpage = -1) and scans content in PHP. On very large sites this can be slow or hit memory limits; consider running during off-peak hours or on a staging copy. Installation Composer (e.g. Bedro