Ajax Search Lite – Live Search & Filter vs Wow FullText Search

Ajax Search Lite is a live search plugin for WordPress. This responsive live search engine, which will boost your user experience by providing a user friendly ajax powered search form – a live search bar. You can filter the results with the category and post type filter boxes as well. Google autocomplete and keyword suggestions also included. Very smooth animations with mobile device support and regular updates. Use Ajax Search Lite as a replacement for the default WordPress search with a better looking, more efficient search engine. Fine-tune the user experience by providing a powerful ajax search plugin to your visitors. Supports custom post types and custom fields and more. Boost your site search engine with this custom built live search engine. Home | Features | Lite Docs | Pro Docs Ajax Search Lite and Ajax Search Pro does not require monthly subscriptions, does not store your data on external servers – everything is done locally, on your server. Features List Search in posts and pages Search in custom post types such as WooCommerce Products, Events, Portfolio items and more Search in title, description, excerpt, categories and tags and any custom fields Archive page live loader and filter Automatic search replacement as well as widget and shortcode availalbe Custom Filter boxes (checkbox filters) for categories and post types WPML, Polylang and QtranslateX compatible Live Search Statistics Super Fast Search Cache – instant cached results 10+ built in templates + options for color adjustments Retina ready vectorized SVG and CSS3 icons Category and post exclusions Frontend search settings boxes Images in search results Fully ajax powered 50+ options on the backend Caches images for faster response time Performance Options Google analytics integration – both as Events and Pageviews Primary and Secondary ordering options Highly compatible and responsive Support Feel free to contact us via the support forums. In Pro version Front-end demo | Back-end demo Create multiple search bars with different configurations All page builders supported (Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Breakdance, Gutenberg, Beaver etc..) Search in Every custom post type Search in Media Attachments and contents (PDF, Excel, Word, PowerPoint etc..) Search in BuddyPress activity feed, users and group names Search in PeepSo Groups and Group Activities Search result grouping by categories or post types Search in custom fields including repeaters and special custom field taypes Predictive search results suggestions WooCommerce Shop search and filter Search and filter Elementor Loop Grid and JetEngine Listing Grid Advanced caching technology – image precaching, search phrase caching Category filters, custom field filters, post type filters, tag filters, taxonomy term filters and date filters Checkbox, Drop-down, Multiselect, Radio, Slider and Range slider filters Results grouping by category, post type or content type Load more and Inifinite scroll 100+ Themes – Fully configurable and editable – with theme customizer & preview window 4 layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic (with pagination) 400+ Admin options Google keyword suggestions and autocomplete Compatibility options and features Caching options & Search statistics Keyword Highlighting & more… Highly compatible and responsive Full Features List Testimonials “Beyond the live search, it also makes your search much more complete. You’ll be able to include custom fields, comments, and more in your search index.” – Ben Pines – Elementor “Consider this plugin if you’re looking for a professional live search offering.” – Tom Ewer – WPMU Dev “Ajax Search Pro plugin gives you a live Ajax search, so much comfortable search experience” – Dragan Nikolic – Thematosoup “As the name suggests, the core value of Ajax Search Pro is the ability to add Ajax live search to WordPress.” – Colin Newcomer – aThemes

Default WordPress search result pages are often slow and results they show are often not relevant. This plugin use specially designed Search Engine software for that purpose, which gives you both speed and relevance. Useful when: You need your search results to be fast better accuracy for search results required natural language constructs has to be understood (search for “galaxy” has to return pages containing “galaxies” word) drop-in replacement of existing search result pages – no adjustments in theme code required At WowPress.host company we often face situation when search results pages at websites we manage are extremely slow, or search results you get are not relevant. Search pages traffic may even affect whole website stability by taking all SQL server resources. That happens because WordPress use SQL queries to perform the search but MySQL is not designed for that. There is only one working solution to prevent search slowness – use specially designed Search Engine server software written exactly for that purpose, and this plugin allows you to do that. This plugin supports ElasticSearch engine to perform search requests, and our service available in every hosting environment. Keep in mind that some technical knowledge required to set up and maintain ElasticSearch server software, also it’s not possible to install it on every hosting environment so we do offer our Managed service available for everyone. While we offer our search solutions to our customers for awhile with a lot of success, we decided to publish some basic solution to the community for free since we use a lot of open-source tools in our work too. Hope it will help you. Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code? Support for this plugin is provided via the WordPress.org forums. The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub. Need adjustment for your specific theme/plugin needs? Paid support at WowPress.host.