Upgrade your WordPress search experience. Discover contextual results with enhanced relevance.
Seamless Integration
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- Cleanly integrates with any WordPress theme by replacing the default WordPress search.
- Advanced search results page for additional features.
- Override the search results page within your WordPress theme.
Search Everything
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- Find relevant results by matching the post title and content.
- Optionally search excerpts, categories, tags, custom taxonomies, meta fields, authors, and comments.
- Exclude posts from the search results by ID or category.
Track What Your Visitors Are Searching
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- View the popular search terms in your admin area.
- Optionally, display them in the front end of your site.
- Protect visitor privacy. Tracking is completely anonymous.
Additional Features and Benefits
If you prefer more control over where the plugin appears on your site, then we have you covered.
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- Shortcodes: Display popular search terms or the search form anywhere within your post or page content with shortcodes.
- Custom CSS Styles: You can easily change the display of the search results by using your custom styles.
- Relevance-based Search Results: Search results are automatically sorted by relevance. You can also turn off relevancy-based searching, in which case results are sorted by date.
- Customisable Output: Better_Search_Query allows you to build a custom template to display the search results.
- Profanity Filter: Customise the list of stop words that will automatically be filtered out of search queries.
- Widget: Display the popular search terms in your sidebar or footer. If your theme supports it, then just drag and drop the widget.
- Admin Interface: Better Search allows you to view the popular search terms in a clean, searchable tabular format.
- Fine-tune the Results: Change the weighting of the post title and content. Turn on BOOLEAN search to override the default NATURAL LANGUAGE search of mySQL.
- Speedy: The in-built caching system will display your search results quickly and efficiently. Don’t forget to turn it on!
- Developer-friendly: Better Search has tonnes of actions, filters, and smart coding, making it a developer-friendly plugin.