FiboSearch – Ajax Search for WooCommerce vs RapidCatalog 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.

RapidCatalog for WooCommerce lets you spin up realistic WooCommerce products in seconds. Perfect for demos, staging environments, theme development, and store prototyping. Simply enter your Unsplash API key, choose your categories, set a price range, and hit Generate. The plugin handles everything else — product names, descriptions, categories, featured images, and SKUs — all created automatically. ✨ Key Features One-click bulk generation — create up to 500 products at a time. Unsplash integration — every product gets a beautiful, high-quality featured image fetched from the Unsplash library. Dynamic categories — define comma-separated categories; the plugin auto-creates them in WooCommerce if they don’t exist. Randomised product content — natural-sounding names, structured HTML descriptions with feature bullet points, and realistic pricing. Background processing — products are created in batches via AJAX so you never hit a timeout, and a live progress bar keeps you informed. Cancellable — stop a running generation at any time. WP-CLI support — generate products from the command line with wp rapidcatalog-generate. HPOS compatible — fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and Cart/Checkout Blocks. Clean uninstall — all plugin data is removed when you delete the plugin. Built-in logging — detailed logs written to wp-content/uploads/rapidcatalog-logs/ for easy debugging. 🖥️ Admin Interface A clean, modern settings page lives under WooCommerce → Product Generator and includes: Unsplash API key configuration with step-by-step setup instructions. Category, quantity, price range, and publish status controls. A real-time progress bar with cancel support. 🔧 WP-CLI Commands Generate products directly from the terminal: wp rapidcatalog-generate wp rapidcatalog-generate --count=20 wp rapidcatalog-generate --count=5 --category="Living Room" --status=draft External services This plugin relies on the Unsplash API to provide high-quality, royalty-free product images. Service: Unsplash (provided by Unsplash Inc.) Usage: Fetching and downloading featured images for generated products based on your chosen categories. Data Sent: Search queries (e.g., category names like “Living Room”) are sent to Unsplash to find relevant photos. The plugin also triggers a “download” tracking endpoint per Unsplash API guidelines to credit photographers. No user-identifiable data is sent. Links: Unsplash Terms of Service Unsplash Privacy Policy Unsplash API Guidelines An Unsplash Application Access Key is required for the plugin to fetch images.