In the last few days, Blizzard replaced the old WoW Armory with a new one hosted on http://battle.net. Aside from the confusing design (which may be a complete subjective thing, because I’m not used to the new design yet), the most annoying part was that my Firefox search plugin stopped working. I wasn’t able to find a new one, so I searched around a found a nice description how to create my own search plugins. I was able to write my own one pretty easily.

So, if you are also searching for a working search plugin for the World of WarCraft Armory, well, here they are. Just click on the corresponding link for your desired Armory:

• Install search plugin: WoW Armory EU
• Install search plugin: WoW Armory EU German
• Install search plugin: WoW Armory US

Activated Javascript is required for installing. Search data, images and icons are copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

These search plugins should work with Firefox 2.0 or later, Google Chrome,  Internet Explorer 7 or later and any other browser, which supports OpenSearch search plugins. If you are interested in the XML files of these search plugins, here they are:

• WoW Armory EU search plugin XML Source
• WoW Armory EU German search plugin XML Source
• WoW Armory US search plugin XML Source

If you are interested in making your own search plugins, you should take a look at the OpenSearch Specification and at the Firefox OpenSearch developer site.