WordPress isn’t reflecting changes I make to a specific file via FTP [closed]

It sounds like something is creating a cached version and serving as a static page. Try disabling all caching plugins and try again. Here are some examples of plugins to look out for: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/search/caching/ Once you have finished updates to your file then you can re-activate, or alternatively manually delete the cache in the plugin … Read more

Search for categories

You can use default wordpress function to search categories. get_terms() is the function you need to use where you need to pass your search string in a search parameter. For details please check get_terms function in wordpress codex