Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin vs Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress

Ivory Search is a simple to use advanced WordPress search plugin. It enhances the default WordPress search and also allows you to create new custom search forms. With Ivory Search, you can create an unlimited number of search forms and configure each search form individually to customize WordPress search and perform different types of searches on site content. Display the custom search forms on site header, footer, sidebar or widget area, navigation or menu, on pages, posts, custom post types or anywhere on the site using its shortcodes. Note: The styling of the search form highly depends on how your theme styles it. If your theme does not style search form correctly then to style it get free support from Ivory Search Support. Have any doubt or question? Feel free to ask it using Contact Form. Links Website Documentation Support Contact Us Key Features Perform faster search with inverted index-based search engine. Index and search shortcode contents. Search WooCommerce products. Search images, files and attachments. Customize search form using customizer. Search using AJAX search. Track searches in search analytics. Index and search TablePress shortcode contents. Create unlimited number of search forms. Configure each search forms separately. Configure search form to search specific content. Exclude specific content from search results. Display Search Forms anywhere on your site. Supports multilingual search. Multilingual Search supported by Weglot Integrates with popular plugins such as WooCommerce, Weglot, Polylang, bbPress, WPML etc. AJAX Search or Live Search Convert any search form including default search form to AJAX search form. Search posts, pages, WooCommerce products, images, files or any custom post type using AJAX search. Exclude any specific content from AJAX search. Search Form Customizer Use customizer to change search form colors and its text. Choose any search form style from various search forms. Search Specific Content Search specific post types such as post, page, product, attachment, forum etc. Search in post title. Search in post content. Search in post excerpt. Search posts having specific category or taxonomy terms. Search in category or taxonomy terms title. Search in category or taxonomy terms description. Search posts having specific custom fields or metadata. Search WooCommerce products SKU. [Premium] Search WooCommerce products variation. [Premium] Search posts created by specific authors. [Premium] Search in author Display name and display the posts created by that author. Search posts having specific statuses. [Premium] Search posts having specific number of comments. [Premium] Search in approved comments content. Search posts created in specific date. Search only password protected posts. Search only posts without passwords. Search all posts with and without passwords. Search specific files, MIME type or media attachments such as images, audio, videos, PDF, documents etc. [Premium] Search in the title, caption and description of images, attachments and media. Search in multiple languages as the plugin supports multilingual plugins such as Polylang, WPML etc. Exclude Specific Content From Search Exclude specific post types from search. Exclude specific posts, pages, WooCommerce Products, Media Attachments, forums or any custom post type from search. Do not search in the post title. Configure to not search in post content. Configure to not search in post excerpt. Exclude posts from search having specific category or taxonomy terms. Exclude posts from search having specific custom fields or metadata. [Premium] Exclude ‘out of stock’ WooCommerce products from search. [Premium] Exclude posts from search created by specific authors. [Premium] Exclude posts from search having specific statuses. [Premium] Exclude sticky posts from search. Exclude posts from search having specific number of comments. Exclude posts from search created before or after specific dates. Exclude password protected posts from search. Exclude posts from search without passwords. Exclude images, audios, videos, PDF, documents, attachments, files, media, file type or MIME type from search. [Premium] Control and Extend Search Display search form in navigation menu and configure its functionality. Configure the number of posts to display in search results. Highlight search terms on the search results page. Order posts in ascending or descending order of date, relevance, id, author, title, type, name, comment count, menu order or entirely random. [Premium] Display or hide sticky posts at the top of the search results page. Display an error page or list all posts for empty search queries. Display search forms only to site administrators while testing, before going live. Disable an individual search form or disable searching site wide. Configure stop words which are excluded from search. Option to add word synonyms to provide more relevant search results. Display post_type argument in the search query URL and restrict search to it. Search posts having all or any of the selected category or taxonomy terms. Display content having any or all the searched terms. Fuzzy Matching – Search posts that include the whole search term or search words in the posts that begins or ends with the search term. Keyword Stemming – Also searches base word of searched keyword. [Premium] Note: some of the features are Premium marked as [Premium]. To have access to those features you will need Ivory Search Premium. You can get Ivory Search Premium here! We enhanced and re-wrote old Add Search To Menu plugin from the ground up and Add Search To Menu has renamed to Ivory Search. Help Need Help? Get Ivory Search support. Feedback Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact us using this Contact form.

Supercharge your WordPress site search with Better Search – a powerful replacement for the default WordPress search engine that delivers more relevant results and a richer search experience. Better Search gives you complete control over your site’s search results. Fine-tune relevance, search across different fields and post types, track popular queries, and customise the output — all without writing a single line of code. Make your search more intuitive and engaging with a search heatmap of popular queries, display results as users type with AJAX Live Search, and tailor the look to your theme with custom templates and styles. Built with performance in mind, Better Search includes its own caching system and works smoothly with popular caching plugins like WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache. It also features a profanity filter and is translation-ready for global use. Awesome features in Better Search: Automatic: Just activate the plugin and enjoy better search results right away Seamless integration: No need to edit any code or create custom search templates Relevance: Sort the results by relevance or date, and assign different weights to title and content Control the results: Search within title, content, excerpt, meta fields, authors, tags and other taxonomies and comments Popular searches: Show a heatmap of the most popular searches on your site, either as a widget or a shortcode AJAX Live Search: Show search results as you type in any search form on your site Customisation: Use your own template file and CSS styles for the ultimate look and feel Supports cache plugins: Works seamlessly with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache Profanity filter: Filter out any words that you don’t want to appear in search queries Translation ready: Use the plugin in any language If you want to improve your site search, download Better Search today and experience the difference for yourself. Features in Better Search Pro Better Search Pro gives you even more control and performance: 🗄️ Efficient Content Storage and Indexing 🔍 Multisite Search ✨ Fuzzy Matches 🎯 Relevance Threshold 🔗 Search Post Slugs ⚙️ REST API Integration 🔄 LIKE Fallback Search ⚖️ Advanced Relevance Weighting MySQL FULLTEXT indices Better Search adds the following MySQL FULLTEXT indices to the wp_posts table: post_content post_title (post_title, post_content) On multisite, these are added to each blog upon activation. These indices power the relevance-based search and are required for full functionality. Contribute Better Search is also available on Github. If you’ve got some cool feature you’d like to implement into the plugin or a bug you’ve been able to fix, consider forking the project and sending me a pull request. Plugins by WebberZone Better Search is one of the many plugins developed by WebberZone. Check out our other plugins: Contextual Related Posts – Display related posts on your WordPress blog and feed WebberZone Link Warnings – Add accessible warnings for external links and target=”_blank” links Top 10 – Track daily and total visits to your blog posts and display the popular and trending posts Knowledge Base – Create a knowledge base or FAQ section on your WordPress site WebberZone Snippetz – The ultimate snippet manager for WordPress to create and manage custom HTML, CSS or JS code snippets Auto-Close – Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks and manage revisions on your WordPress site