Smart Search Control – Advanced Search for WooCommerce, Custom Post Types vs Wow FullText Search

Upgrade your website’s search experience with Smart Search Control. As your website grows, so does the need for precision. Smart Search Control extends native WordPress capabilities to deliver accurate, highly relevant results for data-rich websites, WooCommerce stores, and Custom Post Types (CPT). Whether you need a product search bar, a documentation filter, or a blog archive search, this plugin gives you full control. You can create unlimited search forms, place them anywhere using our Gutenberg Block or Shortcode, and ensure your visitors find exactly what they are looking for without frustration. 🚀 Key Features 🔍 Search in Custom Post Types: Don’t limit your users to just standard posts and pages. Distinctively filter and search through any registered Custom Post Type (e.g., Portfolios, Events, Real Estate Listings). 🛒 Advanced WooCommerce Search: Fully compatible with WooCommerce. Allow customers to search Product Variations, SKUs, and Attributes to boost conversion rates. 🏷️ Category & Tag Filtering: Scope any search form to specific categories or tags per post type, so visitors only ever see the most relevant results — ideal for large blogs, multi-vendor shops, and content-heavy sites. ⚡ Live Search Suggestions: Offer a “Google-like” experience with real-time suggestions that appear as the user types. 🧱 Gutenberg Block & Shortcode Support: Seamlessly add a search bar to any page, post, or widget area using our dedicated Gutenberg Block or the simple [smart_search_control] shortcode. 🎛️ Multiple Search Instances: Create unique search forms for different sections of your site (e.g., a “Blog Search” for your news section and a “Product Search” for your shop). 🎨 Customizable Results Page: Take control of your Search Results Page (SERP). Choose between Grid or List Layouts and assign a dedicated page for results, or let results display instantly on the same page when no results page is set. 🔧 Developer Friendly: Extensive support for template overrides and hooks to fit your theme’s branding perfectly. Why Choose Smart Search Control? 1. Advance WooCommerce Search Standard search often misses hidden product data. Smart Search Control allows you to index and search WooCommerce Product Variations, ensuring customers find the exact size, color, or model they are looking for. 2. Custom Post Type Filtering Building a directory or a portfolio? You can configure a search form to only look inside specific Post Types. Example: Create a search bar that only searches “Movies” and ignores “Blog Posts.” 3. Category & Tag Search Filtering Need even more precision? Restrict a search form to specific categories or tags within a post type. Example: A “Sale Search” bar that only searches products tagged “Clearance,” or a blog search limited to the “Tutorials” category. 4. Place It Anywhere We believe in flexibility. * Gutenberg Ready: Drag and drop the Search Block into your editor. * Widget Support: Add to sidebars or footers easily. (coming soon) * Shortcode: Use [smart_search_control id=”123″] inside page builders like Elementor, Divi, or Beaver Builder. Support For support, please visit our support forums or contact us through our website.

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.