Ajax search pro is the best live search engine plugin for WordPress. Highly customizable, with many features and options, giving the best results possible! Replace the WordPress search bar with a better looking, more efficient search engine.
Looking for a better WordPress search? Check out this search plugins features, including checkbox, dropdown, radio button category filters and custom field (post meta) filters as well.
Shortcodes and widgets compatible with any builder, such as: Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, Visual Composer, Divi Page Builder, Gutenberg and others..
Ajax Search Pro can act as an Elementor Live Posts and Products widget filter. Building a custom results page via Elementor is also supported.
Ajax Search Pro for WordPress – A Live WordPress search and filter plugin
Ajax Search Pro for WordPress was designed to boost the user search experience to the maximum. It provides a live ajax search, which makes the wordpress search experience more confortable.
The results are presented with images (if any found), so they look more attractive and less flat. The search works with mobile devices, let it be Android or IOS powered.
The search can override the default wordpress search results – so the ajax functionality is extended – replace your default theme search with only a click of a button.
The search can return posts, pages, any custom post types (like WooCommerce products, BBPress forums, topics, replies), categories, custom taxonomy terms (like product categories, portfolio tags), users, BudddyPress groups and BuddyPress activities as results.
Searching media attachments, including their content is also possible – for PDF, CSV, TXT, RTF and Office documents, Excel and Powerpoint files.
More than 60 colorful, fully customizable themes will save you time with the CSS hussle, so you can focus more on the presentation.
The backend offers hundreds of options for those, who like to customize the search to the maximum. Many features were implemented based on customer feedbacks,
and even more coming soon.
Live results page loader script also included – for more details, check out the Results page live loader documentation.
The plugin is updated regulary based on customer feedbacks and bug reports. Every support ticket is answered within 48 hours, usually in 12 hours (except for weekends).
Powerful Taxonomy and Custom field (post meta) search filters
The search features an easy to use drag and drop style taxonomy and custom field filter builder. Checkbox, radio, select dropdown, mutliselect and date filter types are all supported.
Fully intuitive editor for all major and minor details – including ordering, selected items, parent-child relationships, layout modes and connection logics as well.
Over 400 other back-end options will give you the tool to make a fully functional and useful wordpress search form for your website.
Ajax Search Pro for WordPress features
MANY CONTENT TYPES SUPPORTED
The search supports posts, pages and any kind of custom post type.
WooCommerce, Jigoshop, wp-Ecommerce and many other plugins use custom post types – so they are all compatible with Ajax Search Pro.
FRONTEND SEARCH SETTINGS
The plugin provides a customizable frontend settings interface for users. By ticking a few checkboxes the user can change the
behaviour of the plugin – like looking for exact matches, including/excluding certain post types, categories or custom taxonomies (like product categories)
LAYOUT & THEMES
Four built-in layouts: Vertical, Horizontal, Polaroid and Isotopic.
60+ pre-defined theme for each layout, including the ones on the demo page.
WIDGETS & SHORTCODES
Three different widget are provided (latest searches, top searches and search box) and two shortcodes for each search. Shortcode buttons are also visible on the post editor.
IMAGE SUPPORT
The search has built in libraries with extreme compatibility for image handling. They can parse through content, excerpt, custom fields
or just simply display the featured image.
ICONS
Use the variety of high resolution, vectorized and colorizable svg icons or upload your own if you want to.
ADJUSTABLE SEARCH LOGIC
You can change the search logic to fit your needs. By default the plugin works with an OR logic to provide higher amount of results. If you however need more strict results, you can change this with a click. More info in the documentation search logic section.
SMART IMAGE PARSING
Highly adjustable image parser ensures to show the best quality images in the results. The plugin can scan the featured, content, excerpt custom field for images.
CATEGORY, TAG & TAXONOMY TERM FILTERS
Create and manage category, tag and any taxonomy term filters. Checkboxes, drop-downs and radio button layouts are all supported.
CUSTOM FIELD FILTERS
For even more sophisticated layout you can create custom field filters, to give your users more advanded ways to search your content.
MULTISITE SUPPORT
Having a multisite network? You can select which blogs you want to include in each individual search instance. You can search multiple blogs at the same time.
RELEVANCE SEARCH & INDEX TABLE
A fully configurabe relevance options panel is provided for those, who like to fine-tune their plugins. You can switch to index table search and create indexes for even more relevant results.
PAGE BUILDER SUPPORT
Shortcodes and widgets compatible with any page builder, such as: Elementor, WPBakery Page builder, Visual Composer, Divi Page Builder, Gutenberg and others.. The plugin also acts as a WPBakery Page builder and Gutenberg add-on as well.
COMPACT LAYOUT MODE
No place on your site for the search widget? You can hide the search bar until the user clicks on the magnifier icon.