When it comes to search, WordPress drastically lacked the space although there are plugins available out there which may helps the one to improve search results. But for those who don’t want to add additional plugin for the purpose as well as increase the functionality, there is one such big option available out there. One can consider on replacing their by default WordPress search with Google custom search.
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You completed your first WordPress website but still wondering what you actually left out with. Answer is simple a website never get completed unless and until it got a powerful search engine to fuel it up. While we talked about many WordPress search plugins in the past, but today we felt that it would be better if we got the things to some specific turns. That’s why with this article, we are going to review the search plugin name AJAX WP Query Search Filter.
Ajax WP Query Search Filter is a powerful AJAX search engine that let your user perform more precisely search by filtering the search through post type, taxonomy and Meta field. Moreover, you do get an option to customize the plugin as per your own choice, or else you can have the search plugin your own styling mantra.
Features
Admin are free to choose whether the search go through post type, taxonomy, meta field or even all of them.
Multiple Search Form Supported.
Search form support checkbox, radio and dropdown fields.
Using Ajax to display result in the same page complete with pagination.
Plugin extendable with hooks.
Using shortcode to display the search form.
Download, Installation & Configuration
Upload ajax-wqsf folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Create your search form in the Advance WQSF.
Using [AjaxWPQSF id={form id}] to display the form.
Summary & Review
The question lies here only that what I required? Or what’s the option I am looking for? Since the plugin offers the site owner to have different search filters on board so that one can search via post type, taxonomy and Meta field making it a perfect choice for anyone. I say yes for the plugin and suggest site’s owner to give AJAX WP Query Search Filter plugin a try.
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Using a WordPress Content Management System for your corporate website, a blog, a magazine and so on, you soon be realized that the default search tool available isn’t the one you required as it brings the result in front of you based on data rather than relevancy along with the fact that it lacks on searching everything.
With this article, I have tried to bring the best WordPress search plugins which I believe would help you gaining all the things which you being looking for in a search plugin. Here I showcased five best search plugins that I feel would suits you the best for your WordPress site searches.
Search Everything
The Search Everything plugin allows you to search number of elements which would not be included in a default WordPress search tool. Here are the options included with the plugin:
Better Search replaces the default WordPress search engine with a more powerful search engine as the default WordPress search is limited and it doesn’t give you results based on the title or content of the post, but by date. The plugin supports templates for perfect integration into your blog template.
Features:
Automatically replaces your default WordPress search with Better Search results
Search results sorted by relevance. You can also include pages and attachments in the search results
Fine tune results by changing the weighting of post title and post content
Option to turn off relevancy based matching. This will sort results by date
Display a list of popular search terms (daily and overall) on your blog in the form of a heatmap
Support for a template file for perfect integration into your blog template
Clean uninstall if you choose to delete the plugin from within WP-Admin
Works with caching plugins like WP-Super-Cache and W3 Total Cache
The Relevanssi plugin replaces the default search with a partial-match search which sorts the results based on relevance. The plugin also indexes comments and shortcode content, allowing you to give better results and better presentation of results.
Features:
Search results sorted in the order of relevance, not by date.
Fuzzy matching: match partial words, if complete words don’t match.
Find documents matching either just one search term (OR query) or require all words to appear (AND query).
Search for phrases with quotes, for example “search phrase”.
Create custom excerpts that show where the hit was made, with the search terms highlighted.
Highlight search terms in the documents when user clicks through search results.
Search comments, tags, categories and custom fields.
Adjust the weighting for titles, tags and comments.
Log queries, show most popular queries and recent queries with no hits.
Restrict searches to categories and tags using a hidden variable or plugin settings.
Index custom post types and custom taxonomies.
Index the contents of shortcodes.
Google-style “Did you mean?” suggestions based on successful user searches.
Automatic support for WPML multi-language plugin.
Automatic support for s2member membership plugin.
Advanced filtering to help hacking the search results the way you want.
Search result throttling to improve performance on large databases.
Disable indexing of post content and post titles with a simple filter hook.
Live Search will add functionality to your WordPress site using the built-in search and jQuery. As soon as visitors type words into your WordPress site’s search box, the plugin queries WordPress, looking for search results which will match on what the user has typed. The functionality to come up with results requires Javascript, but the search box still works normally in case if Javascript is not available.
The WP Search allows you to control the importance you give to both of the titles and the content. The plugin lets you increase relevancy by keeping a focus on titles and content instead of ordering search results by date.
The plugin along with this, allows you to choose to include attachments, revisions, navigation menu items, comments and categories along with wildcard and Boolean operator support.
