12 Best FREE Wordpress Search Plugins For Any Type Of Website

by default wordpress provides a very simple search solution without liar product or post search for a woocommerce website the customer may wish to filter the products by any criteria like price price range categories tax title feature product on sale products in stock products filter by rating product experts id attributes like color and sku whereas if you are having a blog or a business website you may need a search function to search in post meta author names categories tags custom taxonomies post date or any combination of these easily on any website you need to have a smooth and quick search bar which will boost your user experience also sometimes you need to have the insights about what exactly your visitors are looking for in addition the search should also recognize plurals synonyms handle typos and have fuzzy matching capabilities so instead of showing no results the search bar can intelligently display spelling corrections in ddo main suggestions in this video we will see some wordpress search plugins and their features which will help you to select the best search plugin for your website interestingly we have checked only the free plugins so let us check out [Music] the first plugin on our list is the ivory search wordpress search plugin the plugin enhances the default wordpress search and allows you to create unlimited new custom search forms the forms can be displayed on different areas of your website and can be easily customized individually to show results as per your requirement the products can be searched easily with different woocommerce criterias including the sku and also you can hide the out of stock products in the search the search can be extended to image media attachment and files and also you can create unlimited search form which can be customized easily as per your requirement the results can be displayed anywhere with the help of short codes and the search can include anything from the woocommerce to the blog criteria the important feature of this plugin is that we can control the number of alphabets that need to be typed while searching for the product or post so here i have just typed in one letter and it has pulled out some data for that alphabet so if i now type three letters it will give me some products and i can easily find out the details of this product and go to add to cart and check out from the website so the ivory search plugin has a lot of good features and you can check out the details about this plugin on the link given in the description the next one is the search wp live ajax search plugin this plugin enables ajax powered live search for your search forms this has been developed by the search wp llc who have a popular product called the search wp which is a premium product you can check out so the search wp live ajax search enables a live search on your website while you type in the details for the search the widget can be used at multiple locations and it enables the live search on your website so check out the search wp live ajax search the next one that we have on our list is the search and filter plugin by code amp and this has been installed on more than 50 000 websites this is another simple plugin which enables you to search by category tag custom taxonomies post type post date or any combination of these you can easily create a filter for your categories or you can have multi select options drop down range select or a date range select easily on your website you can easily add the check boxes taxonomy filters post method date filter or the search criteria in two drop downs so check out this plugin the search and filter plugin by code the next plugin is the better search plugin by ajay de souza and this has been installed on 8 000 plus website the plugin not just search through the post but also the pages and the other custom post types the plugin is packed with options to allow you to easily customize the output you can also fine tune the results by assigning a greater weight to the entire title or the content through the settings you can fine tune the search by controlling the criteria like the actual golan mode which limits the relevancy matches so the most relevant results will be shown on top of the results though other settings like the search excerpt the taxonomies the search meta authors and comments lets you fine tune the search on your website the highlight of the plugin is the heat map settings and with this settings you can analyze the most popular searches on your website so don't forget to check out the better search plugin by ajay the next plugin is the ajax search lite and this has more than 60 000 installations the plugin has some amazing features as it allows you to search in the posts and pages and also it has some advanced features like it caches the images for faster response time and the performance enhancement options it also has google analytics integrations and the primary and secondary ordering options the ajax search is pretty responsive and also it has the functionality to prompt you for the results in case there is no data found for the entry on the search bar so a very efficient plugin and don't forget to check out the ajax search the next one is the wp extended search or lightweight and powerful wordpress search with this plugin you can customize the wordpress search to search in post meta author names categories tags or custom taxonomies via admin settings you can control the 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 the custom search forms so don't forget to check the wp extended search like the next one that we have is the fibo search ajax search for woocommerce plugin and this is one of my personal favorites as it has a lot of packed in features the first one is that you can use the code to place the search bar anywhere on your website the highlight of this plugin is the autocomplete feature which enables the customer to have suggestions while he types in the search bar with this the customer gets immediate suggestions based on the things typed in the search bar the search can be customized based on the product image price product description sku categories and a lot of other parameters with this plugin this may be the reason why this plugin is one of the most popular plugins having more than one lakh installations so don't forget to check out the fabio search ajax search for woocommerce the next one is the search iq the search solution plugin and this plugin shows instant results with autocomplete and have a lot of good features including one of the most important thing is the ai to handle the typos synonyms fuzzy matches and thus it can be the best choice in having a search bar on your website this plugin has a very easy setup and it can have features as we discussed as a fuzzy match and things like the ai suggestions which makes this plugin the best choice to have the search bar customizable as per your requirement so check out this plugin search iq the search solution by search iq the next is the woof product filter for woocommerce by realmag777 with the help of shortcodes you can have various widgets in the sidebar of the woocommerce and you can filter the products with almost any criteria like the price range color the type of product the sizes and the meta description of your product so this plugin is from the real mag and i have already created a video on the woocommerce currencies which are plug-in by the same developers so this plugin has a free as well as a premium version and the free version has a lot of features which are kind of premium features compared to other plugins so you can check out at the vu product filter for woocommerce the next one is the woocommerce product filter by vuboo and it is one of the best plugin for the woocommerce product filtration with this you can have the normal search bar as well as the price range search and the rating search along with the other parameters you can also have a radio button or a tick box to select the criteria for the filtration the backend settings are very easy to understand and you can almost customize everything for this plugin so check out the woocommerce product filter by boob the next plugin that you can check out is the advanced woo search and as name suggests it is a woocommerce search plugin the plugin has a lot of features it can have different search sources like the title content excerpt categories tags and sku it also has a multi-lingual plugin support you can customize the search results and use shortcodes and widgets with this plugin the main feature is the synonyms and plural support which gives accurate results for our search so this is the advanced vu search plan the last plugin is relevancy a better research plugin by mikko sorry and this plugin as the name suggests is based on the relevancy the plugin has easy setup and you can also set the and or conditions along with other details like the keyword matching like the partial word if no hits for the whole words so if the customer has entered few words it can search for part of the complete sentence also the plugin has a setup for the custom excerpt and snippets wherein you can adjust the number of words for the snippet and the accept criteria to search on the search bar the synonym setting will help you enhance the results for the search as you can identify the frequently misspelled product or the search word and add it to the synonyms so that the search can identify it as synonym the plugin also has settings for the stop words wherein you can add different words which shouldn't be part of the search criteria there is one drawback about relevancies is about its compatibility and you need to check the compatibility with other plugins that you are using on your website if you like the video if you would like to 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Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021