WP Search is a WordPress app, with a 2.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Aug 31, 2026.
WP Search is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Kenny. With a rating of 2.0★ from 1 reviews.
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WP Search is a mixed-rating 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. 1 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
- +Published by Kenny — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (2.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (1) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How WP Search works
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WPSearch 2 is a major update to the highest rated search plug-in for WordPress, WPSearch.
This plugin focuses on search relevancy and speed.
If you find this project useful and you want to support it, just follow @_kennyk_ on Twitter 🙂
The major features of WPSearch 2 are:
* Super-fast search speed * Unmatched and customizable search relevancy * Control over boosting the importance of title and content fields * Instantly updated searching after a post has been written * Searching of any type of post * Wildcard and Boolean operator support * Category searching
Requirements:
* WordPress 3 * The iconv library/multibyte support (Usually installed/enabled on a server by default. If not, have an admin compile PHP with --enable-mbstring).
Coming soon!: Exclude certain posts or categories (a long-standing feature request).
Note:
If you have a large site with over 10,000 posts, consider using WPSearch Premium,
which has all the power of this free repository version, but can handle up to 500,000 posts under heavy load and faster speed
with it’s low-level backend driver. To learn more, email [email protected].
Manual Installation Install WPSearch 2 from the WordPress plugin admin panel if possible.
If you are upgrading from a previous version, it is recommended that you rebuild your index after the upgrade.
* Copy the wpsearch folder to the WordPress plugins directory * Set permissions of the wpsearch directory to 777 (very important!): $ chmod -R 777 wpsearch/* * Activate wpSearch * Go to Settings-->WPSearch Options, and click "Build Index" * Click "Save Changes" and wait until the page reloads (this can take a while depending on the number of posts in your blog) * Go to your blog's search box and search. Do the results look better? Cool!
Did you have trouble installing? Let me know! [email protected]
Note: Don’t forget the bit about changing folder permissions!
Fix Log
2.0.3.0: Fixed file path inclusion issue for Zend library. Added notice in case user does not have multibyte support.
2.0.2.5: Stopped WPSearch from interfering with admin post search, fixed error message in WP admin page registration
2.0.2.0: Added customizable searching of post types, and a relevancy fix
2.0.1.2: Fixed ‘quick edit’ javascript error due to erroneous inclusion, added fix for long indexing times
2.0.1.0: Re-added ability to boost title and content, fixed pagination bug
2.0.0.0: Complete rewrite with a bunch of new features. Check it out!
1.5.0.5: Null Result Fix ( Finally! ), logging support, search library upgrade (ZF v1.5.3)
1.5.0.1: Comment Searching, Foreign Character support, ‘Phone Home’
1.5.0.0: Faster searching, core integration, 0 style or javascript includes
Known Conflictions wpSearch is known to react with certain plugins which manipulate search results.
These plugins most likely expect the default WordPress search to in use, which it is not.
The following plugins are known to cause issues:
Custom Query String ( CQS )
Headspace2
Send all bug reports to [email protected].
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is WP Search?
WP Search is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 2.0-star rating from 1 merchant review, 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 Kenny.