Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin vs WPSOLR

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.

Know how Attend a Webinar to learn the specifics of the search engine of your choice. Ask support if you’d like us to run another webinar. Demos Watch 111+ product demos, setup guides, and feature walkthroughs on our YouTube channel. Guides PostgreSQL | Unified SQL + AI search OpenSearch | Elasticsearch-compatible + AI search Weaviate | Pioneering AI search Vespa.ai | Large-scale AI search Elasticsearch | Popular full-text search Apache Solr | Pioneering full-text search Why Self-hosted | Keep your data private with local deployments and lower infrastructure costs Fast | Proven performance across millions of documents, products, and media Scalable | Stay responsive through peak traffic, including Black Friday-scale demand Fewer Zero-Results | Help users find relevant results from vague queries instead of frustrating empty pages Features Docker-ready | Launch enterprise search quickly with six self-hosted engines AI Search | Understand meaning to surface more relevant results Classic Search | Match exact keywords with precision and speed Real-Time Suggestions | Speed up discovery with instant search suggestions Faceted Filters | Help users narrow large catalogs effortlessly Recommendations | Increase discovery with smart related content suggestions Ready for More? Start with WPSOLR Free, then unlock enterprise-grade search and AI capabilities with WPSOLR Enterprise: Hosted Search Providers – Connect to managed search platforms such as Weaviate, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Bonsai, OpenSolr, and SearchStax. AI Recommendations – Increase conversions with personalized recommendations based on user behavior and business goals, including best sellers, frequently bought together, and related products. Based on Recombee, Algolia Recommend, Amazon Personalize. AI Search Personalization – Automatically rank results based on what is most likely to convert for each visitor. Advanced Faceting – Powerful filtering widgets including number ranges, sliders, date pickers, and color selectors. WooCommerce Add-on – Display Add to Cart buttons directly in search suggestions and manage in-stock and out-of-stock products. ACF Add-on – Search all Advanced Custom Fields content, including repeaters, flexible content, and media files. Integration Hub – Export content and files to popular processing pipelines including Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Dataflow, Kafka, and RabbitMQ. Document Chunking & Citations – Search within documents and files with precise citations to matching content. And much more… ✓ Free trial on your test environment ✓ Simple download, no commitment ✓ Full feature access ✓ Compatible with your existing WPSOLR configuration via settings export/import Download your free trial. Don’t want the hassle of self-hosting? Let us manage your search engine with our fully hosted plans. WPSOLR Hosting for OpenSearch Other engines coming soon