Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress vs Relevanssi – A Better Search

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 Multilingual sites Better Search supports WPML and Polylang and detects TranslatePress’s current language when caching search results. Caches are separated by language so results from one language are not reused in another. TranslatePress translates the displayed results with the rest of the page; it does not create a separate search index of translated text. Better Search Pro’s core WordPress REST search responses and live-search suggestions are translated using the active TranslatePress language. Search-term highlighting can prevent TranslatePress from translating a complete title because it splits the text with markup. Disable search-term highlighting if translated titles remain in the default language.

Relevanssi replaces the standard WordPress search with a better search engine, with lots of features and configurable options. You’ll get better results, better presentation of results – your users will thank you. This is the free version of Relevanssi. There’s also Relevanssi Premium, which has added features. For more information about Premium, see Relevanssi.com. Do note that using Relevanssi may require large amounts (hundreds of megabytes) of database space (for a reasonable estimate, multiply the size of your wp_posts database table by three). If your hosting setup has a limited amount of space for database tables, using Relevanssi may cause problems. In those cases use of Relevanssi cannot be recommended. Key features Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date. Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match. Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query). Search for phrases with quotes, for example “search phrase”. Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted. Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results. Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields. Multisite friendly. bbPress support. Gutenberg friendly. Advanced features Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments. Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits. Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings. Index custom post types and custom taxonomies. Index the contents of shortcodes. Google-style “Did you mean?” suggestions based on successful user searches. Support for WPML multi-language plugin and Polylang. Support for s2member membership plugin, Members, Groups, Simple Membership and other membership plugins. Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want. Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases. Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook. Premium features (only in Relevanssi Premium) Indexing attachment content (PDF, Office, Open Office). Improved spelling correction in “Did you mean?” suggestions. Searching across multiple sites in the same multisite installation. Search and index user profiles. Search and index taxonomy term pages (categories, tags, custom taxonomies). Search and index arbitrary columns in wp_posts MySQL table. Assign weights to any post types and taxonomies. Assign extra weight to new posts. Let the user choose between AND and OR searches, use + and – operator (AND and NOT). Export and import settings. WP CLI commands. Related posts. Redirects for searches. Thanks Cristian Damm for tag indexing, comment indexing, post/page exclusion and general helpfulness. Marcus Dalgren for UTF-8 fixing. Warren Tape for 2.5.5 fixes. Mohib Ebrahim for relentless bug hunting. John Calahan for extensive 4.0 beta testing.