Search with Typesense vs Spectacu.la Advanced Search

Turbocharge your sites search functionality with Typesense. Create a fast search experience for your site. Give your users a search listing page or autocomplete search. Typesense is a modern, privacy-friendly, open source search engine built from the ground up using cutting-edge search algorithms, that take advantage of the latest advances in hardware capabilities. FEATURES Lightning-fast search results in milliseconds Allow overriding native WordPress default search for whole site. Shortcodes for adding search in only specific locations. Hooks and filters for customizations Template Override for design customizations. Developer friendly Elementor widgets: Instant Search and Autocomplete This plugin requires API keys from Typesense. Getting Started with Typesense LINKS Documentation Typesense Typesense WordPress Site Typesense Search for WooCommerce Typesense Comparison with other platforms DEMO LINKS Frontend Demo Autocomplete Instant Search PRO ADDONS Addon: WooCommerce Addon

This plug-in provides you with more relevant search results than are currently available to the normal WordPress search and it should also do so with less of a performance hit on the db than the normal WordPress search. We use the MySQL commands MATCH () AGAINST () as opposed to WordPress’ use of LIKE to do our queries which are not as heavy on the db. The only issue we have with “match against” is that we need an index on the columns we intend to search on.