Best relevant search plugins for WordPress
The most popular relevant search plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Better Search leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of WP Fast Total Search (900+) and Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress (400+). All 9 plugins tagged “relevant search” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 7 relevant search plugins
- 1.
Better SearchThe most installed relevant search plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 61 reviews, updated 5 days ago.
- 2.
WP Fast Total Search900+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 28 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress400+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 24 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 4.
Yext AI Search30+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Relevant Search20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.28.
- 6.
Yext Answers Site Search20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
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Keyspider Site Search Plugin for WordPressFewer than 10 active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.0.18.
All 9 plugins tagged “relevant search”
Better Search
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,171by Ajay5 days ago
Better Search replaces the default WordPress search with a better search engine that gives contextual results sorted by relevance.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.4(61)
- Downloads
- 127/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
Swiftype Site Search Plugin for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:44#9,627by matthewtyriley5 years ago
Fast, intelligent, and fully customizable search for your site.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 3.7(24)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Yext AI Search
Up in the last 7 days:228#23,638by Yext1 month ago
Add the world's best search experience to your website in minutes.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Relevant Search
Up in the last 7 days:65#25,857by Luis A. Ochoa7 years ago
Relevant Search replaces the default WordPress search with relevant results.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Yext Answers Site Search
Up in the last 7 days:840#26,934by Yext4 years ago
This plugin is no longer being maintained. If you are looking to add Answers to your Wordpress site, please use our new plugin: https://wordpress.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Keyspider Site Search Plugin for WordPress
#70,686by Keyspider4 years ago
Relevant, intelligent, and fully customizable site search for your WordPress website.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day