Better Search – Relevant search results for WordPress vs Wow FullText 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

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.