Best search plugins for WordPress
The most popular search plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Search Regex leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Relevanssi (100K+) and Search & Replace (100K+). All 652 plugins tagged “search” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 search plugins
- 1.
Search RegexThe most installed search plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 101 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Relevanssi100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 406 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Search & Replace100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 283 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 4.
String locator100K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 125 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Ivory Search90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 1,562 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 6.
Ajax Search Lite70K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 266 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 7.
Real-Time Find and Replace70K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 82 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 8.
Advanced Woo Search60K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 248 reviews, updated 6 days ago.
- 9.
Search Exclude50K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 218 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 10.
Search & Filter40K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 175 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
All 652 plugins tagged “search”

Search Regex
Down in the last 7 days:1#291by John Godley1 month ago
Search Regex adds a powerful set of search and replace functions to WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and other data.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.7(101)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day

Relevanssi
#352by Christoph Vielgrader9 days ago
Relevanssi replaces the default search with a partial-match search that sorts results by relevance. It also indexes comments and shortcode content.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(406)
- Downloads
- 6.9K/day

Search & Replace
#362by WP Media2 years ago
Search & Replace data in your database with WordPress admin, replace domains/URLs of your WordPress installation.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(283)
- Downloads
- 269/day

String locator
Down in the last 7 days:1#367by InstaWP1 month ago
Find and edit code or texts in your themes and plugins
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.6(125)
- Downloads
- 788/day

Ivory Search
Up in the last 7 days:1#471by Vinod Dalvi18 days ago
Advanced WordPress custom search plugin. Provides Search Form Customizer, WooCommerce Search, AJAX Search & Live Search support!
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.6K)
- Downloads
- 1.1K/day

Ajax Search Lite
#564by wpdreams20 days ago
The Best Ajax Live Search and Filter for WordPress. Live suggestions, Custom Post types, Custom fields, Categories, WooCommerce & Elementor support
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.8(266)
- Downloads
- 770/day

Real-Time Find and Replace
Down in the last 7 days:1#588by Marios Alexandrou2 months ago
Set up find and replace rules that are executed AFTER a page is generated by WordPress, but BEFORE it is sent to a user's browser.
- Installs
- 70K+
- Rating
- 4.5(82)
- Downloads
- 129/day

Advanced Woo Search
#616by ILLID6 days ago
Advanced WooCommerce product search plugin. Search inside any product field. Support for both AJAX search and search results page.
- Installs
- 60K+
- Rating
- 4.8(248)
- Downloads
- 1.3K/day

Search Exclude
#724by quadlayers1 month ago
Hide any post or page from the search results.
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.8(218)
- Downloads
- 553/day

Search & Filter
Up in the last 7 days:2#789by Code Amp2 months ago
Search and Filtering for Custom Posts, Categories, Tags, Taxonomies, Post Dates and Post Types
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.5(175)
- Downloads
- 232/day

SearchWP Live Ajax Search
#793by Syed Balkhi3 months ago
Template powered live search for any WordPress theme. Does not require SearchWP, but will utilize it if available.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.7(36)
- Downloads
- 280/day

Customizer Search
Up in the last 7 days:3#803by Nikhil Chavan1 year ago
Search for settings in customizer.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 94/day

ACF
#822by 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

Disable Search
Down in the last 7 days:2#920by Scott Reilly1 year ago
Disable the built-in front-end search capabilities of WordPress.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.7(16)
- Downloads
- 102/day

Search & Replace Everything by WPCode
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,086by WPCode3 months ago
Search and Replace everything in WordPress. Easily find and replace media, images, text, links and more with a single click using a simple user interf …
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 3.9(7)
- Downloads
- 201/day

WP Extended Search
#1,276by Sumit Singh11 months ago
Extend search functionality to search in selected post meta, taxonomies, post types, and all authors.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.9(72)
- Downloads
- 68/day

Search Meter
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,351by bennettmcelwee11 months ago
Search Meter tracks what your readers are searching for on your site. View full details of recent searches or stats for the last day, week or month.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.3(29)
- Downloads
- 108/day
Search Everything
Down in the last 7 days:8#1,666by Sovrn9 years ago
Search Everything increases WordPress' default search functionality in three easy steps.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(86)
- Downloads
- 45/day
Search by SKU for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,089by mattsgarage5 years ago
Extend the search functionality of woocommerce to include searching of sku
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.6(85)
- Downloads
- 33/day

Advance Product Search- Voice & Ajax Search for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,268by ThemeHunk22 days ago
Advanced Product Search boosts your store search with instant AJAX results, live suggestions helping customers find products faster.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 100/day

Search and Replace
Down in the last 7 days:17#2,274by manu2252 months ago
Search and replace content into pages and posts
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 3.1(23)
- Downloads
- 34/day

ElasticPress
Up in the last 7 days:7#2,376by 10up1 month ago
A fast and flexible search and query engine for WordPress.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.2(30)
- Downloads
- 736/day

Relevanssi Live Ajax Search
#2,568by Christoph Vielgrader6 months ago
Template powered live search for any WordPress theme. Compatible with Relevanssi search!
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 112/day

WP Search with Algolia
Down in the last 7 days:19#2,586by webdevstudios1 month ago
Use Algolia AI Search & Discovery to power your website's search with AI-powered Autocomplete and InstantSearch for fast, accurate, relevant results.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.5(24)
- Downloads
- 532/day

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:13#2,715by todiadiyatmo2 years ago
Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 4.5(151)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Highlight Search Terms
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,730by Rolf Allard van Hagen2 days ago
Very lightweight (vanilla) Javascript that wraps search terms in an HTML5 mark tag within WordPress search results.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(40)
- Downloads
- 39/day
Maven Algolia
Down in the last 7 days:75#2,790by mustela12 years ago
Fully customise WordPress search implementing algolia API
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 2.5(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day
VK Filter Search
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,825by Vektor,Inc.2 months ago
This plugin allows you to add a search function as a block to narrow down your search by category, tag, custom post type, keyword, etc.
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 47/day

SearchWP Modal Search Form
Down in the last 7 days:6#2,978by Syed Balkhi10 months ago
Quickly and easily insert modal search forms into Menus, as a Block, or directly within theme templates.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 36/day

Sokol
Down in the last 7 days:7#2,985by YummyWP18 days ago
Boost WooCommerce sales with instant Ajax product search — live suggestions, fullscreen popup, SKU search, and GA4 analytics, all in one plugin.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.4(24)
- Downloads
- 78/day
Jetpack Search
Up in the last 7 days:31#3,119by Automattic4 days ago
Easily add cloud-powered instant search and filters to your website or WooCommerce store with advanced algorithms that boost your search results based …
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.5(10)
- Downloads
- 212/day

Better Search
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,170by 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
BP Profile Search
Down in the last 7 days:10#3,193by Andrea Tarantini29 days ago
Member search and member directories for BuddyPress and the BuddyBoss Platform.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(71)
- Downloads
- 87/day

YMC Filter
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,326by YMC1 day ago
A powerful and flexible plugin to filter and display posts, custom post types, and other content in beautifully designed grid layouts.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(34)
- Downloads
- 368/day

Shortcodes Finder
Down in the last 7 days:12#3,391by Scribit4 months ago
Shortcodes Finder helps you to find, test, clean and get informations about the shortcodes in your WordPress website posts, pages and custom contents.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.9(53)
- Downloads
- 47/day

Magnify
Down in the last 7 days:1#3,934by themagnifico521 month ago
Real-time search suggestions that display relevant results as users type. Easy to customize, fast, and responsive on all devices.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 45/day

Events Search & Filter Bar for The Events Calendar
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,089by Narinder Singh3 days ago
Event search and filter bar for The Events Calendar. Add an event search box, date filters and filtered event lists anywhere with a shortcode.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(29)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Search in Place
Up in the last 7 days:1#4,110by codepeople1 month ago
Search in Place improves blog search by displaying query results in real time. It displays the results dynamically as you enter the search criteria.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(64)
- Downloads
- 42/day

Sitekit
Down in the last 7 days:8#4,122by webvitalii1 year ago
Widgets: search, archives and categories. Shortcodes: archives, bloginfo, iframe and categories.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Search Insights
Down in the last 7 days:11#4,132by Mark2 months ago
Uncover exactly what visitors search for on your site. Stop guessing what content to create, fix content gaps, and boost engagement.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(29)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Search Analytics for WP
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,149by Cornel Raiu1 day ago
See what visitors search for on your site and which searches come up empty. Popular search terms and statistics, stored in your own database.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(30)
- Downloads
- 50/day

Slickstream
Down in the last 7 days:16#4,210by Slickstream1 month ago
Use Slickstream to upgrade your site search. Get beautiful as-you-type search, relevant content recommendations, user favorites and more!
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 36/day

DOOFINDER Search and Discovery for WP & WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:21#4,350by Doofinder10 days ago
This plugin integrates the Doofinder search service with your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(127)
- Downloads
- 205/day

Multipart robots.txt editor
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,179by Viktor Szépe8 years ago
Customize your site's robots.txt and include remote content to it
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Admin Search
Down in the last 7 days:19#5,509by Andrew Stichbury5 months ago
Admin Search adds a simple, easy-to-use interface to your WordPress admin site that gives you and your admin users the ability to search across multip …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(18)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Better Internal Link Search
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,513by Blazer Six10 years ago
Improve the internal link popup manager with time-saving enhancements and features.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(25)
- Downloads
- 11/day

SearchIQ
Down in the last 7 days:39#5,947by SearchIQ1 year ago
Our FREE plugin makes your website’s search fast and more relevant. searchIQ helps you to manage content more effectively with real-time analytics.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.9(197)
- Downloads
- 33/day

WPC AJAX Search for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:8#6,475by WPClever1 month ago
WPC AJAX Search is an interaction search popup for WooCommerce.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Nice Search
Up in the last 7 days:6#6,940by Mark Jaquith14 years ago
Redirects search URLs from ?s=FOO to /search/foo and converts spaces to + symbols
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Smart Search & Product Filter for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:116#7,196by Searchanise17 days ago
Advanced WooCommerce product search and filter plugin. Customizable search bar, live search suggestions and auto-generated filters for search results.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.4(43)
- Downloads
- 39/day