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WP Search is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Kenny. With a rating of 2.0★ from 1 reviews.
WP Search is a WordPress app, with a 2.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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WP Search is a WordPress app. It holds a 2.0★ average from 1 review on WordPress.
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- −Average rating below 4.0 (2.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Only 1 review — the average can still move with a few new ratings
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 kenny@oconf.org.
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.