WP Static Search for WordPress Plugin Directory
WP Static Search is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 2 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
WP Static Search is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Gergely Szerovay. With a rating of 4.5★ from 2 reviews.
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WP Static Search is a highly rated WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 2 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Gergely Szerovay — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (2) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How WP Static Search works
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WP Static Search
This plugin adds a static search engine to your WordPress site. Static in this context means that it works in the browser without using of server-side queries, so it’s ideal for static websites generated from a WordPress site.
Since both the search and the indexing happens in the browser, this plugin is not a good fit for sites that contain hundreds of pages and posts.
Getting Started After you are installed the plugin, choose the ”Static Search” option from the left sidebar of the WordPress admin interface. Press the ”Update Index” button and wait until the indexing is finished. Each time you change the content of the website, you should update the search index manually.
To insert the search box and the search results into the site, use the [static_search] shortcode. It’s a good practice to create a page called ”Search” with the slug ”/search/” and insert the [static_search] shortcode into this page. To redirect the search widgets to this page, append the following code to the bottom of your .htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} \\?s=([^&]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /search/?q=%1 [NC,R,END]
This code redirects the search queries to the /search/ page, then the [static_search] shortcode processes them and shows the search results.
Built With lunar.js – Javascript search engine
Versioning We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.
License This project is licensed under the Apache 2 and GPL2+ Licenses
Acknowledgments
The frontend search code based on the MkDocs project’s search plugin.
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Frequently asked questions
What is WP Static Search?
WP Static Search is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 2 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Gergely Szerovay.