FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce vs Keyword-Based Bulk Category Assignment for WooCommerce

The most popular WooCommerce product search plugin. It gives your users a well-designed advanced AJAX search bar with live search suggestions. By default, WooCommerce provides a very simple search solution, without live product search or even SKU search. FiboSearch (formerly Ajax Search for WooCommerce) provides advanced search with live suggestions. Who doesn’t love instant, as-you-type suggestions? In 2025, customers expect smart product search. Baymard Institute’s latest UX research reveals that search autocomplete, auto-suggest, or an instant search feature is now offered on 96% of major e-commerce sites. It’s a must-have feature for every online business that can’t afford to lose customers. Why? FiboSearch helps users save time and makes shopping easier. As a result, Fibo really boosts sales. Features ✅ Search by product title, long and short description ✅ Search by SKU ✅ Show product image in live search results ✅ Show product price in live search results ✅ Show product description in live search results ✅ Show SKU in live search results ✅ Mobile first – special mobile search mode for better UX ✅ Details panels with extended information – “add to cart” button with a quantity field and extended product data displayed on hovering over the live suggestion ✅ Easy implementation in your theme – embed the plugin using a shortcode, as a menu item or as a widget ✅ Terms search – search for product categories and tags ✅ Search history – the current search history is presented when the user clicked/taped on the search bar, but hasn’t yet typed the query. ✅ Limit displayed suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ The minimum number of characters required to display suggestions – the number is customizable ✅ Better ordering – a smart algorithm ensures that the displayed results are as accurate as possible ✅ Support for WooCommerce search results page – after typing enter, users get the same results as in FiboSearch bar ✅ Grouping instant search results by type – displaying e.g. first matching categories, then matching products ✅ Google Analytics support ✅ Multilingual support including WPML, Polylang and qTranslate-XT ✅ Personalization of search bar and autocomplete suggestions – labels, colors, preloader, image and more Try the PRO version FiboSearch also comes in a Pro version, with a modern, inverted index-based search engine. FiboSearch Pro works up to 10× faster than the Free version or other popular search solutions for WooCommerce. Upgrade to PRO and boost your sales! PRO features ✅ Ultra-fast search engine based on the inverted index – works very fast, even with 100,000+ products ✅ Fuzzy search – works even with minor typos ✅ Search in custom fields with dedicated support for ACF ✅ Search in attributes ✅ Search in categories. Supports category thumbnails. ✅ Search in tags ✅ Search in brands (We support WooCommerce Brands, Perfect Brands for WooCommerce, Brands for WooCommerce, YITH WooCommerce Brands). Supports brand thumbnails. ✅ Search by variation product SKU – also shows variable products in live search after typing in the exact matching SKU ✅ Search for posts – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Search for pages – also shows matching posts in live search ✅ Synonyms ✅ Conditional exclusion of products ✅ TranslatePress compatible ✅ Professional and fast help with embedding or replacing the search bar in your theme ✅ and more… ✅ SEE ALL PRO FEATURES! Showcase See how it works for others: Showcase. Feedback Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Feel free to contact us via the contact form.

This plugin helps you save hours of manual work when importing large batches of products that do not have any categories assigned. It allows you to define keyword-based rules per category and apply them in bulk to selected products. Key Features: – Create flexible keyword rules per category. – Supports “OR” logic by default and “AND” logic via special syntax. – Exclude products via “Not Contains” keywords. – Bulk-apply rules to selected products in the Products list. – Import and export rules as JSON files for backup and transfer. How It Works 1. Create and Save Rules 1.1. Go to WooCommerce > Keyword Category Rules. 1.2. For each existing category, enter: – Contains: keywords separated by commas (example: shoes, sneakers). – Not Contains: keywords that should exclude a product (example: damaged, used). 1.3. To require multiple words to appear together, use "AND" (with “”) between them: – Example: shoes "AND" leather matches titles containing both “shoes” and “leather”. 1.4. Save your rules. 2. Apply Rules to Products 2.1. In the WooCommerce Products (All products) list, select the products you want to process. 2.2. In the Bulk Actions menu, choose Apply Keyword-Based Category Rules, then click Apply. 2.3. The plugin will evaluate all selected products, assign matching categories, and show a success notice. Limitations: – This plugin does not automatically assign categories to new products when they are created or imported. The assignment must be triggered manually via Bulk Actions. – The matching is performed against the product title only. – Currently, the plugin works in one direction only: it adds categories to products based on matching keyword rules, but it does not remove any previously assigned categories when the keywords are removed or changed. This means: If you remove a keyword from a rule or replace it with a different one, the plugin will not remove previously applied category assignments from affected products. Once a rule has been applied, its effects remain in place unless manually adjusted via the product edit screen or other third-party tools. License This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.