Relevanssi – A Better Search vs WP Live Search

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.

WP Live Search (beta) is a search plugin for WordPress that returns results as the user types for what they are looking. It currently supports posts, pages, post types, including multiple post types, and design modes. This is very much a working prototype, so please log any issues you find on the Github repo below. https://github.com/bearded-avenger/wp-live-search Here’s some documentation. http://bearded-avenger.github.io/wp-live-search/ Add the shortcode [wp_live_search] to a page or something. There’s a few shortcode attributes that you can use, and are as follows: type=”” Your choices are posts or pages. Defaults to posts. You can also pass type,type to search multiple post types. For example type=”recipes,books” multi=”” By default this is turned off. Set this to true only if you’re using multiple post types above. placeholder=”” The text displayed in the input. Defaults to Search.... number=”” Total search result to return. Default is 20 excerpt=”true” Show the excerpt along with the title and featured image (if set) compact=”true” Makes a tiny WP Live Search for use in header widgets and such dropdown=”true” Display search results as a drop-down instead of pushing down the content around it results=”” The text displayed for the results. Defaults to entries found. results_style=”inside” Displays the “entries found” inside of the input area, useful for using in areas like header widgets where space is minimal. target=”” An optional target UL parent to send the search results to. Example target="#someotherdiv". Here are a couple examples: Default Usage: [wp_live_search] Use in Header Widget: [wp_live_search compact=”true” dropdown=”true” results=”found” results_style=”inside”] Search through multiple post types: [wp_live_search multi=”true” type=”posts,page”]