Best extended search plugins for WordPress
The most popular extended search plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. ACF leads with 40K+ active installs, ahead of WP Fast Total Search (900+). All 2 plugins tagged “extended search” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 extended search plugins
- 1.
ACFThe most installed extended search plugin, with 40K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 165 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
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WP Fast Total Search900+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 28 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “extended search”
ACF
Up in the last 7 days:1#820by Mateusz Gbiorczyk2 months ago
This plugin adds to default WordPress search engine the ability to search by content from selected fields of Advanced Custom Fields plugin.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.9(165)
- Downloads
- 437/day
WP Fast Total Search
Down in the last 7 days:13#6,948by Epsiloncool8 days ago
Extends the default fulltext search with relevance, jet speed and ability to search any posts, metadata, taxonomy, shortcode content and more data.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.4(28)
- Downloads
- 48/day