Wow FullText Search
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.
WP Extended Search
WP Extended Search is a lightweight and powerful search plugin. With this plugin you can customize WordPress search to search in Post Meta, Author names, Categories, Tags, or Custom Taxonomies via admin settings. You can control the default behavior of WordPress to search in the post title, post content, and post excerpt. Apart from customizing default search behavior, you can create multiple search settings, and then you can assign these settings to custom search forms. For custom search forms, you have the option to choose from a widget, shortcode, PHP function, or HTML. Features Search in selected meta keys Search in category, tags or custom taxonomies Search in the post author name Include or exclude any public post type Control whether to search in title or content or excerpt or all Compatible with WooCommerce. Search in product SKU, Attributes, variations, and custom fields, etc. Create unlimited search settings to use with custom search forms. Add search forms using a widget, shortcode or PHP function. Also works with custom searchform.php Exclude old content from search results (Older than admin specified date) Customize the number of posts to display on the search results page Customize SQL relation (AND/OR) between search terms Customize order of search results Control whether to match search query exactly or partially Limit attachment results by mime type e.g. display only pdf files in search results. Translation ready Compatible with WPML Links Documentation GitHub
