Best bm25 plugins for WordPress
The most popular bm25 plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Coywolf Search leads with fewer than 10 active installs, ahead of Softlinkster Semantic Search (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “bm25” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 bm25 plugins
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Coywolf SearchThe most installed bm25 plugin, with fewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
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Softlinkster Semantic SearchFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “bm25”

Coywolf Search
Up in the last 7 days:7,403#58,871by Coywolf2 months ago
Replaces WordPress search with a custom full-text index: BM25 ranking, fuzzy matching, and instant as-you-type suggestions.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Softlinkster Semantic Search
Down in the last 7 days:18,750#68,699by Khurram Shehzad2 months ago
Self-hosted WordPress search with relevant results, live AJAX search, WooCommerce support, multilingual indexing, and privacy-safe analytics.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day