Best search plugins for WordPress

Widget Search Filter

Up in the last 7 days:64#26,807

by Mickey Kay11 years ago

Widget Search Filter allows you to quickly search & filter your widgets in real time. No more excessive searching, scrolling, and dragging.

Faceted Search

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by AndrewUlrich14 years ago

This plugin will create widgets that you can use to conduct faceted searches using the categories or tags on your site.

Search by Tags

Down in the last 7 days:42#26,927

by mayerz14 years ago

Let your readers search the web or your website directly from your posts content for any of your Tags. It will also improve your website's SEO.

Make My Donation

#27,001

by Danillo Nunes6 years ago

Integrate your funeral home site with our Make My Donation - In Memory Of Platform and allow donations to over 1.5 million eligible US charities.

Super Search

Up in the last 7 days:2#27,022

by mc2w15 years ago

Generates a drop-down list and a text box to allow your visitors to search for posts within specific categories.

SearchCloak

Up in the last 7 days:2#27,060

by firebrandllc8 years ago

Hides Pages & Posts from search results and search engine indexes.

Search Tools

Down in the last 7 days:409#27,107

by Peter Stehlík2 years ago

The advanced search plugin shows analytics, what users look for, can export data, highlights search term, extends default WordPress search engine.

Lightweight Live Ajax Search

Down in the last 7 days:338#27,127

by Sandesh6 years ago

Live Ajax based search functionality. Lightweight and provides a shortcode to display live search input box anywhere.

Logarithmic Pagination

Down in the last 7 days:52#27,305

by Jonas13 years ago

This plugin inserts pagination to your blog, archives and search results based on logarithmic calculation for a more evenly distributed link-juice.

REST API Search

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by KCPT10 years ago

This adds the missing functionality of Search into the WordPress REST API.

EZ Ajax Search

Down in the last 7 days:68#27,406

by ezPlugins11 years ago

ez Ajax Search allows your visitors to search your WordPress site in real time without having to reload the page. Get instant results of selected post …

WP Full Screen Search

Down in the last 7 days:177#27,416

by Mayank Majeji2 years ago

This plugin converts default WordPress search to full screen search overlay form on your WordPress website.

Yext Answers Site Search

Down in the last 7 days:617#27,495

by 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.

Frontier Query

Up in the last 7 days:282#27,545

by finnj3 years ago

Display list and grouping of posts in widgets, posts and pages. Breakdown posts by categories, taxonomies, date, post type etc.

Simple Category Search

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by wokamoto12 years ago

You can choose (child) categories and see the posts belong to the chosen category with AJAX.

CleanCodeNZ Exclude Pages Plugin

Up in the last 7 days:152#28,075

by cleancodenz15 years ago

This is a plugin to hide pages from navigation and/or search results using custom fields, parent and child pages are supported too

Dashboard Search for MemberPress

Up in the last 7 days:305#28,080

by treeflips1 year ago

Search for MemberPress members right from your WordPress Dashboard. Saves you a few clicks.

Search Log

Up in the last 7 days:97#28,353

by signum_ignitum10 years ago

Keeps a log of what people search for on your site.

Search Tag Cloud

#28,358

popular-searches-tag-cloud16 years ago

Show a Tag Cloud displaying the most popular searches performed by your users in your blog.

PopSearch Live for WooCommerce

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by Aizaz Ali6 months ago

Fullscreen search popup with live product search, category slider and trending tags for WooCommerce stores.

Element451 Integration

Up in the last 7 days:931#28,669

by element45126 days ago

Add Element451 features including Live Chat and Bolt Discovery search to your WordPress site with minimal configuration.

Visidea

Down in the last 7 days:370#28,747

by Visidea5 months ago

Visidea is the Visual Search, Search Bar and Product Recommendations plugin for WooCommerce.

AJAX Search, Filtering and Sorting for WordPress & WooCommerce

#29,264

by Creative Werk Designs1 month ago

SearchFilterSort adds powerful AJAX-based search, filtering, and sorting to any WordPress post type, giving users fast and accurate results.

Poiskovich

Up in the last 7 days:689#29,285

by wpmarkets2 months ago

Site search that understands Russian word forms: a search for "светильники" also finds "светильник". Own index, relevance ranking, failed-query log.

Consortia Quick Find & Replace

Down in the last 7 days:170#29,307

by Tommy Hansen2 months ago

Find and replace text directly inside the WordPress editor.

Ajax AutoSearch

Down in the last 7 days:943#29,318

by Catch Plugins5 months ago

Ajax AutoSearch is a free WordPress Search Plugin that comes with a handful of essential customization options to enhance the search engine feature.

Easy Full Screen Search

Up in the last 7 days:642#29,329

by Apsara Aruna5 years ago

This is customize you search form to full screen search box.

WP Admin Filter & Search

Up in the last 7 days:159#29,392

by makong10 years ago

Extend inner WP search and filters functionality by custom fields and terms to the admin's post manager.

Ansera Search

Down in the last 7 days:166#29,635

by Ansera.AI5 months ago

Ansera AI-powered search plugin provides answers based on your existing Wordpress content. Smarter than search, simpler than a chatbot

Exclude From Search

Down in the last 7 days:441#29,672

by Luis A. Ochoa7 years ago

Exclude Page and Attachment post types from search results.

Nice Select for WordPress

Down in the last 7 days:165#29,695

by Rupash Das1 month ago

Enhance select elements with a nicer, searchable UI - including full support for multi-select dropdowns with tags.

Admin Ajax Search

Down in the last 7 days:358#29,964

by Jim_Panse12 years ago

Tired of hitting the Search button again and again? Search your posts, pages, comments and many others in the WordPress Backend with the help of ajax …

Denser AI

Down in the last 7 days:235#29,967

by Denser AI1 year ago

Allows Denser customers to easily embed their AI-powered chatbots into WordPress websites.

Search Protection

Down in the last 7 days:316#30,071

by hilfans1 year ago

Lindungi form pencarian Anda dari spam dan karakter berbahaya dengan daftar hitam dan integrasi Google reCAPTCHA v3.

Disable Search Slug

Up in the last 7 days:105#30,261

by Gary Jones10 years ago

Stops /search/... URLs from working, resulting in a WordPress 404 page not found.

Request a Quote for WooCommerce

Down in the last 7 days:87#30,501

by Prodjex8 years ago

The simplest request a quote plugin for WooCommerce

Search Widget and WP REST Server for Toolset Types

Down in the last 7 days:62#30,514

by Magenta Cuda10 years ago

Search Types custom posts for posts that have user specified values for Types custom fields.

WP

Up in the last 7 days:186#30,543

by Hervé Yvis6 years ago

Make sure that only posts are searched by the Wordpress's search function.

Smart Search Engine

Up in the last 7 days:31#30,561

by Contesio12 years ago

Smart Search replaces the native WordPress search engine by giving relevance to what matters. Results are displayed according to your current theme.

remove page from search results

Up in the last 7 days:163#30,572

by gosunatxrea14 years ago

remove pages from search results.

PageScale

Down in the last 7 days:96#30,622

by Shahzaib Rasheed2 months ago

Fast admin manager for sites with tens of thousands of pages or custom post type entries: lazy tree, virtual scroll, keyset pagination, indexed FULLTE …

WP Table Pixie

Down in the last 7 days:1,428#30,664

by ianmjones2 months ago

Search, sort, view and edit your settings and metadata, even serialized and base64 encoded values.

Useful Admin Menu

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by ioannup3 years ago

The plugin automatically hides unused Admin Menu items and adds search box for menu items

search-into-subcategories

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by lion24869 years ago

Search-Into-Subcategories plugin allows you to make a select-search shortcode for your own categories.

Snappy Search

Up in the last 7 days:449#30,935

by Poly Plugins5 months ago

A fast, lightweight search plugin powered by TNTSearch, indexing posts for near instant, accurate results.

Quick Admin Launcher

Up in the last 7 days:855#31,139

by David Beja1 year ago

Quickly launch any admin tool & search posts/pages with a shortcut key for enhanced productivity.

404 to Search

#31,164

by M01n34u4 years ago

It redirect every 404 response to the search page with a default result on what is in the url. It allow the visitor to have something he was looking f …

Archive Pages in Search Lite

Down in the last 7 days:441#31,407

by mkhaledche4 years ago

Displays archive pages for categories, tag, author, custom post types, custom taxonomies archives when searching for them.

MV Form Usage Finder for Contact Form 7

Down in the last 7 days:672#31,482

by Mahesh Vora3 months ago

Search and find which pages, posts, or other content types use a specific Contact Form 7 form, by name or by form ID.

BP Searchable Activity

Down in the last 7 days:79#31,529

by BuddyDev8 years ago

BuddyPress Searchable Activity allows users to search BuddyPress Activity